Winter sport

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A winter sport is a sport commonly played during winter, usually a sport played on snow or ice. See also fall sport, spring sport, summer sport, Winter Olympic Games.

Contents 1 Famous Winter sport resorts 2 List of winter sports 2.1 Ice skating 2.2 Skiing 2.3 Sledding 2.4 Team sports 2.5 References

Famous Winter sport resorts

• Rocky Mountains
• Alps
• Snowy Mountains
• Karkonosze Mountains/Sudeten
• Norway
• Stowe, Vermont

List of winter sports

Ice skating

See also team sports.

• Figure skating *
• Short-track speed skating *
• Speed skating *
• Synchronized skating
• Ice sailing

Skiing

Sports in which skis are used on snow.

• Alpine skiing *
• Biathlon *
• Cross country skiing *
• Firngleiten
• Freestyle skiing *
• Nordic combined *
• Skibob
• Skijoring
• Ski jumping *
• Snowboarding *
• Speed skiing
• Telemark skiing

Sledding

Sports that use sleds going down ice tracks or pulled by something.

• Bobsled *
• Luge *
• Skeleton (aka Cresta) *
• Sled-dog sports

Team sports

Sports that involve teams, played on ice.

• Curling *
• Ice hockey *

* denotes a Winter Olympic Games medal sport.

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Winter_sport" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_sport, used under the GNU Free Documentation License