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Here are all the 'C' sports from over 800 sports listed on our complete list of sports. The most popular C sport from around the world is Cricket, and maybe one of the most unuual sports may be Chess boxing.

There were too many to describe on just one page, so here we have a short description of just the sports starting with the letter 'C'.

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'C' Sports

• Caber Toss — a traditional Scottish sport in which the competition revolves around tossing forward a large tapered pole called a caber.
• Calisthenics — a competitive team sport in which athletes perform elements of rhythmic gymnastics and ballet.
• Calva — a traditional Spanish sport in which you throw a piece of metal to knock down bull's horn-shaped piece of wood.
• Camel Racing — racing camels with a jockey like in horse racing.
• Cammag — a sport similar to shinty or hurling from the Isle of Man.
• Camogie — the female version of hurling played in Ireland.
• Campdrafting — a sport from Australia where a rider on horseback attempts to cut out a cattle from its herd and drive it into a pen.
• Canadian Football — a type of gridiron football that is played in Canada.
• Candlepin Bowling — a type of bowling like tenpin bowling using candlepins and smaller balls.
• Caneball — another name for the Myanmar (Burmese) traditional sport of Chinlone.
• Canicross — a variant of cross country running in which runners have to complete the course accompanied by their dogs.
• Canne de Combat — a French martial art in which opponents battle each other inside a ring with a cane in one hand. A type of Stick-Fighting.
• Canoeing — paddle sport in which the rider kneels or sits facing forward in a canoe.
• Canoe Marathon —  athletes paddle a kayak or canoe over a long distance, often with out-of-water sections.
• Canoe Polo — like polo on water, the objective is to score by throwing or hitting a ball through a goal suspended two meters above the water.
• Capoeira — a form of martial art from Brazil which has a combination of aspects of dance moves, acrobatics, movements and music.
• Canopy Piloting — a parachute skydiver performs aerial feats above a small body of water. Also called Pond Swooping.
• Capture The Flag — the aim is to get the other team’s flag which is located at their base.
• Car Ice Racing — cars race across a strip of frozen water.
• Carriage Driving — sports in which horses or ponies are hitched to a wagon, carriage, cart or sleigh by means of a harness.
• Carom Billiards — A cue sport played on a felt-covered table with cues and billiard balls, in which the object is to score points by caroming your cue ball off both the opponent's cue ball and the object ball(s) with a single shot. There is a large range of disciplines including Artistic Billiards, Three-Cushion Billiards, Five-Pin Billiards, Balkline, Straight Rail, Cushion Caroms, Four-Ball.
• Casting — fishing without fish, the objective is to test the accuracy and distance of a cast.
• Catchball — an easier version of volleyball in which players catch and throw the ball rather than hit it with their hands.
• Cestoball — an Argentinian female sport similar to netball.
• Chase Tag — like the playground game of tag, a chaser has 20 seconds to tag an evader as they race around an obstacle course.
• Cheerleading — a dubious sport in which groups of cheerleaders do routines that are subjectively assessed.
• Chess — a strategy board game played by two players on a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.

Cricket is very popular in India

• Chess boxing — a combination of chess and boxing.
• Chilean Rodeo — two riders on horseback try to stop a calf.
• Chinese Handball — a form of American handball which is popular in the streets of NY, similar to Wallball.
• Chinlone — the traditional sport of Burma or Myanmar, a team sport combined with dance (also known as Caneball).
• Chuckwagon Racing — a chuckwagon is pulled by four thoroughbred horses around a track.
• Circle Rules Football — played on a circular field with one central goal in which teams score in opposing directions using a yoga ball.
• Clay Pigeon Shooting — shooters try to shoot flying targets like clay pigeons or clay targets.
• Clean and Jerk — one of the events Olympic weight lifting competition.
• Clout Archery — a form of Archery, similar to Target Archery, except you aim at a flag among a group of concentric circular scoring zones from long range.
• Club Throw — a track and field disabled sports event, the objective is to throw a wooden club as far as possible.
• Coastal (Offshore) Rowing — a type of rowing performed on open water, requiring wider and more robust boats than those used on rivers and lakes.
• Collegiate Wrestling — a wrestling style practiced exclusively in the United States at a collegiate level.
• Combined Driving — a driver on a carriage pulled by horses takes part in three events: dressage, marathon and cones.
• Competitive Eating — involves participants competing on who can consume the most food in a short period of time.
• Corkball — a sport derived from baseball with a smaller ball that can be played on a much smaller field (often referred to as mini-baseball).
• Cowboy Action Shooting — involves shooting targets with a variety of guns that were typical of the late 19th century.
• Cowboy Mounted Shooting — involves shooting at targets while riding a horse.
• Cowboy Polo — similar to regular Polo, though riders compete with western saddles, usually in a smaller arena and with an inflatable rubber medicine ball.
• Court Tennis — another name for Real Tennis.
• Crab Soccer or Crab Football — football with players supporting themselves on their hands and their feet, face up, which makes them look like crabs.
• Crazy Golf — a common name for Minigolf.
• Cricket — a team sport played on a rectangular pitch in the center of a large grass oval, two batters protect their wicket while the fielding team attempt to get them out. Forms include Test, One-Day and T20.
• Croquet — players hit plastic or wooden balls using a mallet through hoops.
• Crossbow Archery — an archery discipline in which a crossbow is used instead of a regular bow.
• Cross-Country Equestrian — horse riders are required to jump over 30 to 40 obstacles within a fixed time, incurring penalties for exceeding the allocated time or if a horse refuses to clear an obstacle.
• Cross-Country Skiing — races over snow-covered terrain using skis.
• Cross-Country Mountain Biking — off-road cycling races over rough terrain.
• Cross-Country Rally — another name for Rally Raid, an extended form of off-road rally racing.
• Cross-country Running — distance running races over natural terrain.
• Crossnet — a cross between volleyball and 4-square, played with a four-way net.
• Cross Triathlon — a variation of the traditional triathlon, with a swim stage, mountain-biking stage and a trail-running stage.
• Crossfit — a strength and conditioning program involving short but high-intensity workouts comprised of functional exercises. Not really a sport, but they do organize fitness competitions such as the CrossFit Games.
• Crossminton — badminton played with no net adapted to make it suitable for playing outdoors (formerly called Speed Badminton or Speedminton).
• Cue Sports (Billiards) — a general term for a large range of indoor sports played on a felt top table, with or without pockets. Examples include Pocket Billiards (Pool) and Snooker.
• Cup Stacking — see the sport of Sport Stacking.
• Curling — players slide stones on a sheet of ice towards the target area.
• Cushion Caroms — a cue sport and Carom Billiards discipline, played on a pocketless table with two white balls and a red ball. The aim is to carom off of both object balls with at least one rail being struck before the hit on the second object ball.
• Cutting — an American western style sport of the equestrian discipline in which the objective for a rider on a horseback is to separate a few cows from its herd and prevent them from returning.
• Cycling — there is a large range of sports involving riding a bicycle.
• Cycle Ball — the gameplay is similar to that of association football, but is played with each player riding a bicycle.
• Cycle Polo — see Bicycle Polo.
• Cycle Speedway — replicating motor speedway using bicycles.
• Cycling Time Trial — a bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock.
• Cyclo-Cross — a type of bicycle racing, a winter sport performed over various terrain.
• Czech Handball — a ball game created in the Czech Republic with similarities with Team Handball.

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