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Hurling

Hurling is a traditional Gaelic team sport originating in Ireland. Played on a grass field with a stick called a hurley...

Team Stick Field Gaelic

9.2 Excellent

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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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Polo

Polo is a dynamic team sport played on horseback involving striking a ball with a mallet. Originating from ancient Persi...

Team Ball Polo Equestrian

8.4 Great

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Box lacrosse

Box lacrosse is an indoor sport played within a rectangular arena similar to ice hockey. It features five players per te...

Ball Box Stick Indoor

8.3 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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Croquet

Croquet is a mallet sport of driving balls through hoops, notable for Isaac Spratt's 1856 registered rules and a Victori...

Ball Stick Lawn Mallet

7.4 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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Street hockey

Street hockey is a family of outdoor hockey games played on pavement with a ball or puck; Raymond Leclerc codified dek-s...

Team Ball Stick Street

6.7 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

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Dek hockey

Dek hockey is a foot-played street hockey code on modular-surface rinks; Raymond Leclerc opened the Leominster DekHockey...

Team Ball Stick Hockey

6.5 Fair

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Unicycle hockey

Unicycle hockey is a team sport played on unicycles with ice hockey sticks and a tennis ball; its first world championsh...

Team Ball Stick Hockey

5.9 Mediocre