Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| aerobics | exercises for conditioning the heart and lungs by increasing oxygen consumption. |
| aftergame | a rematch; a means employed after the first turn of affairs. |
| airboard | an inflatable board that is used in sport of airboarding. |
| airboarding | the sport of riding an airboard. |
| aquaerobics | a system of exercises, similar to aerobics, performed to music in chest-high water. |
| aquarobics | a system of exercises, similar to aerobics, performed to music in chest-high water. |
| astroturfer | one who engages in astroturfing. |
| backline | in some team sports, the defensive players considered as a unit. |
| backmarker | a person who starts a race with the least advantageous handicap. |
| backstall | (Of a kite) to lose power and begin to drop in low winds. |
| badminton | a game played with a shuttlecock. |
| ballgame | a game played with a ball. |
| balloonist | a person who operates or rides in a balloon. |
| ballplayer | a person who plays ball. |
| barrace | (Obs.) the lists in a tournament. |
| battledoor | (Obs.) a light bat for striking a shuttlecock. |
| battledore | a light bat for striking a shuttlecock. |
| beachball | a light ball for playing on a beach. |
| bearbaiting | the sport of tormenting bears with dogs. |
| besport | to sport, play. |
| bingo | a lottery-type game (verb) to play all seven of one's tiles at Scrabble |
| bobber | a bobsleigh rider. |
| bobsled | a short sledge; (verb) to ride in a bobsled. |
| bobsledder | one who rides a bobsled. |
| bobsledding | riding in a bobsled. |
| boxball | a street ball game. |
| boxla | a form of indoor lacrosse. |
| broomball | a team game played on ice with brooms and a plastic ball. |
| broomballer | one who plays broomball. |
| bullbaiting | the former practice of baiting bulls with dogs. |
| camanachd | (Gaelic) the game of shinty. |
| camogie | (Irish) an Irish game, a form of hurling, played by women. |
| cancha | (Spanish) a court for the playing of jai alai. |
| canyoning | the sport of going down a canyon river by any of various means. |
| caver | one who explores caves. |
| chessboxing | a hybrid sport which combines the sport of boxing with games of chess in alternating rounds. |
| chukka | (Hindi) a period of play in polo. |
| chukkar | (Hindi) a period of play in polo. |
| chukker | (Hindi) a period of play in polo. |
| cockfight | a fight between cocks. |
| cockfighting | the sport of fighting with cocks. |
| cockmatch | a cockfight. |
| cockpit | a pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights. |
| cockthrowing | the old sport of throwing sticks at a cock. |
| cottabus | (Greek) an ancient Greek game of throwing wine into a vessel. |
| cresta | as in cresta run, high-speed tobogganing down a steep narrow passage of compacted snow and ice. |
| croquet | a game, played on a lawn, in which wooden balls are driven through a series of hoops; (verb) to play croquet. |
| crosse | (Fr.) the stick with which lacrosse is played. |
| dartboard | the target used in the game of darts. |
| diabolo | (Ital.) a game in which a two-headed top is thrown up and caught on a string stretched between two sticks. |
| dodgeball | a ball game. |
| drakestone | a flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks. |
| dropkicker | one who takes dropkicks. |
| duathlete | someone who takes part in duathlons. |
| faceoff | the action that starts a hockey game. |
| fillipeen | (US) a game in which each of two players eats a twin kernel of a nut. |
| flexwing | a collapsible fabric wing used in hang gliding. |
| flyoff | a competitive testing of model aircraft. |
| foefie | (S. African) as in foefie slide, a rope, fixed at an incline, along which a person suspended on a pulley may traverse a space, esp across a river. No -S. |
| foosball | (US) table football. |
| footbag | the sport of keeping a small round object off the ground by kicking it. |
| freefall | as in freefall parachuting, a variety of parachuting in which the jumper manoeuvres in free fall before opening the parachute. |
| frisbee | (Tradename) a disc used for throwing. |
| frontenis | a racket used in a Basque ball game. |
| fusball | (US) table football. |
| fussball | (US) table football. |
| gamebook | a book of strategies used by a sports team. |
| gamer | one who enjoys competitions. |
| gamesman | a player of games. |
| gamesy | keen on sports. |
| giust | (Spenser) to tilt with lances. |
| goal | a pair of posts with a crossbar through or over which the ball is driven in some games; (verb) in Rugby, to convert a try into a goal. |
| goalball | a ball game esp for the blind. |
| grannie | a grandmother; (verb) to inflict a heavy sporting defeat on, to whitewash. |
| granny | a grandmother; (verb) to whitewash, defeat completely in a sporting contest. |
| handball | a small rubber ball; (verb) to handle the ball in football. |
| handballer | one who plays handball. |
| hillwalker | one who likes walking in the hills. |
| hillwalking | the pastime of walking in the hills. |
| homestand | a series of games played at a team's home ground. |
| hoodman | the person blindfolded in the game called hoodman-blind. |
| hoopla | a game of throwing hoops on to pegs. |
| hopscotch | a game in which children hop over lines scotched or scored on the ground; (verb) to play hopscotch. |
| hoyle | a rule book. |
| iceboating | the sport of using an iceboat. |
| jackstone | a piece used in the game of jacks. |
| jayvee | a junior varsity player. |
| jeff | (Aust. sl.) to spoil or destroy ruthlessly. |
| jeu | (Fr.) a game. |
| jock | (US sl.) a keen sportsman. |
| jockdom | the world of athletes. |
| jocky | resembling an athlete. |
| joust | a contest between two lance-bearing knights on horseback; (verb) to tilt with lances. |
| jouster | one who jousts. |
| jukskei | (Afrikaans) an outdoor game similar to quoits. |
| just | fair, equitable (adv.) exactly, barely; (verb) to tilt with lances |
| juster | a jouster. |
| kabaddi | (Tamil) an Asian version of tag played between two teams of nine boys or young men. |
| kent | (Scots) a leaping or punting pole; (verb) to punt or pole. |
| kiwisports | outdoor sports associated with New Zealand. |
| kottabos | (Greek) an ancient Greek game of throwing wine into a vessel. |
| lacrosse | a type of ball game. |
| lahal | a team game played by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest. |
| landboarding | the sport of being pulled along by a kite on a board. |
| lauf | (Ger.) a run in a bobsleigh contest. |
| leadoff | an opening play or move. |
| lineup | a list of team members. |
| luge | a light toboggan; (verb) to ride on a luge. |
| luger | one who rides a luge. |
| matchup | a setting of two players against each other. |
| microlighting | the activity or sport of flying microlight aircraft. |
| minimax | in games, the strategy of minimizing one's maximum loss; (verb) to adopt a minimax strategy. |
| minivolley | a scaled down version of volleyball. |
| morra | a game of guessing how many fingers are held up. |
| mumbletypeg | a game of throwing knives to make them stick in the ground. |
| netball | a sort of girls' basketball. |
| netballer | one who plays netball. |
| nonleague | of a sporting club, not in the league. |
| nontitle | pertaining to a sporting event in which a title is not at stake. |
| oche | the throwing line in darts. |
| overcoach | to coach to excess. |
| pachinko | (Japanese) a Japanese arcade game. |
| paddleball | a game like handball played by hitting the ball with a paddle. |
| paintball | a type of war game where the ammunition used is paint fired from compressed-air guns. |
| paintballing | a game in which teams of players simulate a military skirmish, shooting each other with paint pellets that explode on impact, marking the players who have been shot. |
| pallone | (Ital.) an Italian game, played with a large leather ball. |
| pantine | (Obs.) a pasteboard jumping-jack, fashionable in the 18th century. |
| paragliding | the sport of drifting through the air to the ground while wearing a modified type of parachute, after having been towed into the air by, or jumping from, a plane. |
| parakite | a parachute kite, for towing a person through the air by motorboat. |
| parakiting | the sport of soaring suspended from a parachute which is being towed. |
| parapenting | a cross between hang-gliding and parachuting, a sport in which the participant jumps from a high place wearing a modified type of parachute, which is then used as a hang-glider. |
| parasail | to glide through the air on a parachute towed by a boat. |
| parasailing | the sport of gliding through the air on a parachute towed by a boat. |
| parascender | a person who takes part in parascending. |
| parascending | a sport similar to paragliding, the participant being towed into the wind behind a motor vehicle. |
| patball | rounders; gentle hitting in other games. |
| peepbo | the game of peekaboo. |
| pelota | (Spanish) a Basque game played with rackets. |
| pickback | a carry on one's back; (verb) to carry someone on one's back. |
| pinball | an electric game; (verb) to ricochet. |
| pingpong | (Coll.) as in aerial pingpong, Australian rules football. |
| playdown | a playoff. |
| plink | a short, high-pitched sound (verb) to shoot informally at any of a variety of inanimate targets |
| plinker | one who plinks, shoots informally at a variety of targets. |
| plogging | a recreational activity, originating in Sweden, that combines jogging with picking up litter. |
| plyometric | relating to plyometrics. |
| plyometrics | exercise involving repeated rapid stretching and contracting of muscles (as by jumping and rebounding) to increase muscle power. |
| poloist | one who plays polo. |
| postgame | after a game. |
| potholer | one who potholes. |
| potsie | a child's game. |
| potsy | a child's game. |
| powerlifting | the sport of weightlifting. |
| powerplay | strong, attacking play designed to put pressure on the defence, with players and action concentrated in one small area. |
| premeet | taking place before a meet. |
| puckout | in ice hockey, a free hit from the goal area made by the goalkeeper. |
| pushball | a game in which an enormous ball is pushed. |
| quidditch | an imaginary game played on broomsticks. |
| quintain | (Hist.) a post for the practice of tilting with a turning crosspiece. |
| quoit | a heavy flat ring thrown over pin in a game like horseshoes; (verb) to play at quoits. |
| racquetball | a game similar to handball that is played on a 4-walled court with a shorthandled racket and a larger ball. |
| raincheck | a ticket for future use given to spectators when rain stops a game. |
| raindate | an alternative date set for an event in case of rain. |
| raker | in games, a long, fast, low-flying shot. |
| rally | a gathering for a common purpose; (verb) to call together for a common purpose. |
| redshirt | to keep a college athlete out of varsity play in order to extend his eligibility. |
| riflery | the practice of shooting at targets with a rifle. |
| ringette | a team sport played on an ice surface in which straight sticks are used to control a rubber ring. |
| ringsider | one with a seat at the ringside. |
| ringtoss | a game in which the object is to toss a ring so that it will catch upon an upright stick. |
| rokkaku | (Japanese) a Japanese fighting kite No -S. |
| rollerblade | (Tradename) a type of rollerskate with wheels set in line resembling the blade of an ice skate; (verb) to skate on rollerblades. |
| rollerblading | the sport of skating on rollerblades. |
| ropedancing | the sport of dancing with a rope. |
| roque | an American game, a modification of croquet. |
| roquet | in croquet, a stroke by which the player's ball strikes an opponent's; (verb) to make such a stroke. |
| roshambo | (Japanese) the game of rock-paper-scissors. |
| roulette | (Fr.) game of chance involving coloured balls; (verb) to make roulettes in. |
| rounders | a bat-and-ball game in which players run from station to station. |
| sailplaning | the sport of flying using a sailplane, a kind of glider. |
| scoreless | without a score. |
| scoreline | the result in a game. |
| shotmaker | in sport, a person who produces winning or attacking shots. |
| shotmaking | the making of winning or skilful shots. |
| sidespin | a type of spin imparted to a ball. |
| skeet | a form of clay-pigeon shooting. |
| skydive | to jump by parachute as a sport. |
| skydiver | one who practises skydiving. |
| skysurf | to perform freefall acrobatics. |
| skysurfer | one who skysurfs. |
| slahal | a team game played by indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest. |
| sliotar | (Irish) the ball used in hurling. |
| snowboard | a board, similar to a skateboard but without wheels, on which the user balances, guiding the board with movements of the feet and body; (verb) to use a snowboard. |
| snowboarding | the sport of using a snowboard. |
| snowmobiling | the sport of using a snowmobile. |
| snowmobilist | one who engages in the sport of snowmobiling. |
| snowsnake | an Indian game in which a straight wooden rod having a weighted head like that of a snake is slid over a smooth field of snow or down specially constructed runways. |
| snowsurfing | surfing on snow. |
| snowtubing | a winter snow sport that involves sliding down a chute in the snow. |
| spaldeen | a ball used in a street game. |
| speedboating | the sport of driving a speedboat. |
| spelldown | (US) a spelling competition. |
| spelunk | to explore caves. |
| spelunker | one who explores caves. |
| sphairee | an Australian game played with wooden bats and a perforated plastic ball. |
| sporter | one who sports, a sportsman. |
| sportif | (Fr.) sporty; (noun) a person who is active or interested in physical competition. |
| sportscast | a broadcast of a sporting event. |
| squail | a counter for playing squails; (verb) to pelt with sticks. |
| stickwork | skill in using one's stick in any game played with one. |
| stoolball | a kind of game with balls, formerly common in England, esp with young women. |
| swy | (Aust.) the Australian game of two-up. |
| tagger | the pursuer in a game of tag. |
| tchoukball | a ball game involving a ball thrown against a highly sprung net. |
| teammate | one in the same team. |
| tetherball | a ball suspended by a string from a pole. |
| tiddledywink | a game in which one attempts to flip a small disc into a cup by pressing its edge with a bigger one. |
| tiddleywink | any of the discs used in the game of tiddlywinks. |
| tiddlywink | a game in which one attempts to flip a small disc into a cup by pressing its edge with a bigger one. |
| tifoso | (Ital.) a fan or devotee of some sport. |
| tig | a touch, a game of 'it'; (verb) to touch. |
| tilter | one who tilts, or jousts. |
| tiltyard | a place for tilting, jousting. |
| tipcat | a game in which a small piece of wood pointed at both ends, called a cat, is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, so as to fly into the air. |
| titlist | a sports champion. |
| tolley | in the game of marbles, a marble fired at others to drive them from the central ring. |
| tombstoning | (Sl.) the activity of diving off cliffs into the sea. |
| tourney | a tournament; (verb) to take part in a tourney. |
| tourneyer | one who takes part in a tourney. |
| trapball | an old game of ball played with a trap. |
| trapshooter | a person who engages in trapshooting. |
| trugo | (Aust.) a game similar to croquet. |
| tryout | a trial eg for a sports team. |
| tugger | one who tugs, esp in a tug of war. |
| umpirage | the office of an umpire. |
| underspin | a kind of spin in table tennis. |
| urbex | (Short for) urban exploration, a recreational activity in which people explore derelict urban structures such as abandoned sewers or underground railways. |
| victrix | (Lat.) a female victor. |
| vigoro | (Aust.) an Australian game for women, with elements of baseball and cricket, played with a soft rubber ball. |
| volleyball | a game played by volleying an inflated ball over a net. |
| walkaway | an effortless victory. |
| wallyball | a ball game played on a court . |
| weightlifter | one who practises the sport of weightlifting. |
| weightlifting | the sport of lifting weights competitively. |
| whippeting | the sport of racing whippets. |
| wildcard | a person given entry to a competition without qualifying. |
| woodchop | a woodchopping competition. |
| wordgame | a game in which words are used. |
| zorbing | the sport of rolling downhill in a ball. |
| zorbonaut | one who engages in zorbing. |