List of Roller Sports
Roller sports are very popular all over the world. Roller sports are sports that use human powered vehicles which use rolling either by gravity or various pushing techniques. Typically ball bearings and polyurethane wheels are used for momentum and traction respectively, and attached to devices or vehicles that the roller puts his weight on. Commonly used are skateboards, inline skates or quad skates. The international governing body for roller sports is the International Roller Sports Federation (FIRS).
List of Roller Sports
Roller sports include the following sports, disciplines and events:
- Inline Skating — also known as roller blading, a variety of sports performed while wearing skates with two to five polyurethane wheels arranged in a single line.
- Vert Skating — acrobatic inline or roller skating sport performed on a ramp.
- Aggressive skating — a form of inline skating executed on specially designed inline skates with a focus on grinding and spins.
- Freestyle Slalom Skating — involves performing tricks around a straight line of equally spaced cones while wearing inline skates.
- Inline hockey — similar to ice hockey, players move around on a wooden or concrete surface wearing inline skates.
- Inline speed skating — athletes use inline skates to race around tracks.
- Roller Soccer — indoor sport, playing soccer while wearing inline skates.
- Skate Cross
- Inline Alpine Skating
- Roller Skating — there is a range of sports performed while wearing roller skates (quad skates).
- Artistic Roller Skating — is a sport that consists of a number of events (Figures, Dance, Freestyle and Precision Teams) usually accomplished on quad skates, though sometimes inline skates are used.
- Roller Derby — two teams compete while skating in the same direction around a track.
- Roll Ball — like handball on roller skates, players must bounce the ball while moving and score goals by shooting the ball into the opposing team's goal.
- Roller Speed Skating
- Drafting
- Jam Skating
kids doing inline speed skating- Roller Hockey— includes traditional roller hockey (quad hockey or rink hockey played with quad skates) and inline hockey (played with inline skates).
- Rink Hockey — a version of roller hockey.
- Road Skating — athletes use either inline or roller skates and ride on road courses.
- Roller Skiing — races are conducted on tarmac road courses with athletes wearing snow skis with wheels attached.
- Dry Ski Slope
- Grass Skiing — involves skiing on grass-covered slopes on skis with wheels.
- Indoor Ski Slope
- Roller Cross-Country Skiing
- Roller Alpine Skiing
- Skateboarding — competitions involving tricks or races while standing on a flat board with rollers attached at the bottom.
- Park Skateboarding — skaters perform tricks in on a course like a familiar skate park containing bowls and pools in a complex combination with ramps and course bends.
- Street Skateboarding — skaters perform tricks on a street-like course with stairs, handrails, curbs, benches, walls, and slopes.
- Longboarding (downhill) — a skateboarding sport in which athletes use a longboard skateboard to compete in downhill races.
- Freestyle Skateboarding — performing tricks with a skateboard while flat ground skateboarding.
- Skateboarding Trick
- Vert Skateboarding — acrobatic inline or roller skating sport performed on a ramp.
- Mountainboarding — an action board sport like a snowboard with wheels or a cross-country skateboard.
- Streetluge — participants race downhill feet first on a sort of modified skateboard.
- Kite Landboarding — using a kite and wind power to manoeuver a huge skateboard-type board over land.
Similar Sports
- Scootering — doing tricks, over obstacles and terrains, on a scooter.
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