swap_horiz Hurling Alternatives

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Field lacrosse

Field lacrosse is a team sport played outdoors with a stick and a rubber ball. It’s recognized as one of the fastest gro...

Outdoor Team Ball Stick

8.4 Great

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Floorball

Floorball is a fast-paced team sport played indoors using a plastic ball and stick. Originating in Sweden, it shares sim...

Team Ball Stick Indoor

8.2 Great

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Women's lacrosse

Women’s lacrosse is a team sport played on a rectangular field with twelve players per side. It involves using a stick t...

Ball Stick Field Women

8.2 Great

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Bandy

Bandy is a team sport played on ice with a ball and stick within an eleven-player field. Originating in England in 1882,...

Team Ball Stick Ice

8.0 Great

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Cherokee stickball

Cherokee stickball is a Southeastern Indigenous ball game played with two sticks, notable for James Mooney's 1890 study...

Historic Indigenous Team Stick

7.9 Good

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Rink hockey

Rink hockey is a roller hockey code played on quad skates with a ball; it was a demonstration sport at the 1992 Barcelon...

Team Quad Roller Stick

7.7 Good

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Camogie

Camogie is the women's Irish stick-and-ball game related to hurling; its association was founded in Dublin in 1904 with...

Stick Field Women Gaelic

7.7 Good

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Choctaw stickball

Choctaw stickball is an Indigenous field sport using paired sticks and a woven ball, notable for a 1729 Jesuit reference...

Historic Indigenous Team Stick

7.7 Good

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Hornussen

Hornussen is an indigenous Swiss team sport first recorded in Bern in 1625, notable for a struck puck that can fly at ab...

Swiss Team Stick Bat Ball

7.5 Good

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Choctaw Stickball (Toli)

Toli is a traditional Native American stickball game historically played by the Choctaw tribe, utilizing two woven stick...

Traditional Team Native American Oklahoma

7.5 Good

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Inline hockey

Inline hockey is a puck hockey code played on inline skates; World Skate runs its world championships, and it joined the...

Team Inline Roller Stick

7.4 Good

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Shinty

Shinty is a Scottish Highland stick-and-ball game using a caman; the Camanachd Association was founded in Kingussie in 1...

Team Ball Stick Scottish

7.3 Good

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Underwater hockey

Underwater hockey is a pool sport in which breath-holding players push a puck along the bottom; Alan Blake invented it i...

Team Stick Underwater Hockey

7.2 Good

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Indoor hockey

Indoor hockey is a six-a-side indoor variant of field hockey; FIH recognized it in 1968 and held the first Indoor Hockey...

Team Stick Indoor Hockey

7.1 Good

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Ringette

Ringette is a Canadian ice sport using straight sticks and a rubber ring; Sam Jacks and Red McCarthy created it in Ontar...

Team Ring Winter Stick

7.1 Good

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Lacrosse Sixes

Lacrosse Sixes is World Lacrosse's six-a-side format with a 30-second shot clock; it was announced in 2021 and added for...

Olympic Team Stick Lacrosse

7.1 Good

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Polocrosse

Polocrosse is a horse sport combining polo and lacrosse, notable for development in Australia by Edward Hirst and his wi...

Team Stick Polo Lacrosse

7.1 Good

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Powerchair hockey

Powerchair hockey is an adapted indoor hockey sport for electric wheelchair users; its first world championship was held...

Team Stick Hockey Para

7.0 Good

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Ball hockey

Ball hockey is an off-ice form of ice hockey played on foot with an orange ball; organized leagues emerged in Canada in...

Team Ball Stick Street

6.9 Fair

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Composite rules shinty-hurling

Composite rules shinty-hurling is a hybrid of Scottish shinty and Irish hurling; it was developed for Scotland-Ireland m...

International Team Hybrid Stick

6.6 Fair