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Here are all the 'I' sports from over 800 sports listed on our complete list of sports. One of the most common I sports is Ice Hockey, though plenty more 'ice' sports are listed below. Looking for something a bit more unusual? Try Icosathlon, just like the decathlon but twice as hard.

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 'I', click the links to read more.

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'I' Sports

• Ice Canoeing — a team sport in which a five-member crew completes a course, in which riders have to push their canoe on the frozen parts of the river as well as row in the water.
• Ice Climbing — athletes climb vertical ice formations with the use of ropes and other protective gear.
• Ice Cross Downhill — an extreme winter racing sport that involves direct racing of multiple skaters on a downhill course.
• Ice Dancing — one of the events in Figure Skating, which has its roots in ballroom dancing.
• Ice Hockey — a contact sport that is played on ice while wearing skates and using a stick to hit a puck into a goal.

ice hockey is popular in North America

• Ice Racing — racing of motorized vehicles on predominantly natural ice surfaces like frozen lakes or rivers.
• Ice Speedway — similar to Motorcycle Speedway Racing, though using a motorbike developed specifically for racing on ice. The bikes race anti-clockwise around oval tracks between 260 and 425 meters in length.
• Ice Skating — a range of sports that involve traveling on ice using metal blades attached to shoes, such as ice hockey, figure skating and speed skating.
• Ice Sledge Racing — a winter Paralympic sport in which contestants use a lightweight sledge and propel themselves using two poles.
• Ice Stock Sport — a winter sport similar to curling, in which ice-stocks are slid across the ice to a target area. Also called Bavarian Curling.
• Ice Swimming — regular swimming events but held in extremely cold water.
• Ice Track Cycling — racing a modified bicycle around a 400 m frozen track.
• Ice Yachting — sail boats called ice yachts are used to race on frozen lakes and rivers.
• Icosathlon — a double decathlon consisting of 20 events, including the 10 traditional decathlon events with 10 additional track and field events.
• Inbuan — a form of wrestling native to the people of Mizoram in India in which the aim is to lift the opponents legs off the ground.
• Indiaca — a fast-paced sport similar to volleyball, where players use their hands to hit a feathered ball over a net, typically played in singles or teams.
• Indoor Cricket — a modified version of cricket played indoor with nets for walls.
• Indoor Field Hockey — indoor team sport that was derived from field hockey.
• Indoor Netball — a variation of netball, played indoors with netting all around the court.
• Indoor Rowing — competitions performed on a rowing machine that simulates the on-water action.
• Indoor Soccer — an indoor version of Association Football developed in North America with side walls keeping the ball in play.
• Indoor Triathlon — swimming in an indoor pool, cycling on a stationary bike, and running on an indoor track or treadmill.
• Inline Hockey — similar to ice hockey, players move around on a wooden or concrete surface wearing inline skates.
• 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.
• Inline Speed Skating — athletes use inline skates to race around tracks.
• Inner Tube Water Polo — a variation of water polo that is played while sitting on inner tubes in a pool.
• Intercrosse — a non-contact version of lacrosse.
• International Fronton — played by striking a ball onto a wall with bare hands, using rules adapted from many wall ball sports.
• International Game — a team sport that is played by striking a ball with hands, created so that players from similar handball sports could play against each other.
• International Rules Football — invented so that Aussie Rules Football players can play games against Irish Gaelic football players.
• Irish Road Bowling — competitors attempt to take the fewest throws to propel a metal ball along a predetermined course of country roads.
• Ironman Surflifesaving — combines four major aspects of surf-lifesaving into a single race: swimming, board paddling, ski paddling, and beach running.

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