K is for Karate: List of 'K' Sports
Here are all the 'K' sports from over 800 sports listed on our 🧲 complete list of sports.
Kickboxing and Karate are popular sports that start with the letter K, as is Knife Throwing, though 🧲 a favourite K sport of Topend Sports is Kabaddi.
Did you know Kite Fighting is a sport, plus lots of sports 🧲 that use kites such as Kitesurfing and Kite Landboarding.
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 'K'.
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Kabaddi - a "raider" enters the opposite team's half to tag opponents without taking a breath.
Kaisa - a 🧲 cue sport (type carom billiards) mainly played in Finland.
(also known as Karoliina).
Kalaripayattu - an ancient martial art from Kerala, India.
Karate 🧲 - a martial art developed in Japan that uses punching, kicking, knee strikes, elbow strikes, and some open-hand techniques.
Kart Racing 🧲 - an open-wheel motorsport variant that uses small, open, four-wheeled vehicles called karts (or go-karts).
Kayaking - boat races using a 🧲 small, narrow boat propelled using a double-bladed paddle.
Kegel - a German nine-pin bowling game played in Australia.
Kelly Pool - type 🧲 of pocket billiard game played on a standard pool table, with fifteen numbered markers which player select from.
Kemari - Japanese 🧲 traditional sport with the aim to keep one ball in the air.
Kendo - a form of Japanese martial art that 🧲 originated from kenjutsu, using bamboo swords and armor.
Kettlebell Lifting - a weight lifting sport performed with kettlebells, which are heavy 🧲 weights that resemble a cannonball with a handle.
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Kho Kho - the 🧲 team that is quickest to tag all the opponents wins the game, from India.
Kickball - a type of baseball where 🧲 the players kick the ball, instead of striking it with a bat.
Kickboxing - a group of stand-up combat sports based 🧲 on kicking and punching.
Variations include Pradal Serey (Cambodia), Sanda (China), Savate (France), Sikaran (Philippines).
Kilikiti- a traditional Samoan and Tuvalu sport 🧲 similar to cricket.
Kin-Ball - played with three teams and a large inflated ball.
Ki-o-rahi - a traditional New Zealand Maori game 🧲 played on a circular field.
Kite Fighting - battle to cut the lines on the opponents' kites.
Kite Foil Racing - kiteboard 🧲 racing on boards with a hydrofoil that extends below the board into the water.
Kite Landboarding - using a kite and 🧲 wind power to manoeuver a huge skateboard-type board over land.
Kite Boarding - a group of sports that use a kite 🧲 for power and a board for support, such as Kitesurfing, Kite Landboarding, Snowkiting.
Kitesurfing - a board and kite are used 🧲 on the water utilizing different styles consisting of freeride, speed, down winders and racing.
Klootschieten - German sport in which participants 🧲 throw a ball as far as they can.
Kneeboarding - a waterskiing event where a participant is pulled along while kneeling 🧲 on a convex board.
Knife Throwing - like archery, the knife is thrown towards a target.
Korfball - a mixed-gender ball sport 🧲 that is similar to netball and basketball, developed in The Netherlands.
Krachtbal - a team sport from Flanders, where points are 🧲 scored by throwing the ball using a neck or back throw into the opponent's goal area.
Krolf - a mix of 🧲 croquet and golf, players use a mallet to hit the ball into a hole.
Kronum - a team sport that combines 🧲 aspects of football, handball, basketball, and rugby into a single sport.
Kubb - a lawn game where the object is to 🧲 knock over wooden blocks ('kubbs') by throwing wooden batons at them.
Kung Fu - a general term for Chinese martial arts, 🧲 the competition format is Wushu.
Kurash - folk wrestling style from Central Asia in which wrestlers use towels to hold their 🧲 opponents, and their goal is to throw their opponents off the feet.
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