Precision sports Precision sports Archery is the practice of using a bow to shoot arrows. Archery has historically been used in hunting and combat, and has become a precision sport. One term for an archer is a toxopholite, which derives from ancient Greek. ...more on Wikipedia about "Archery"
Bocce is a precision sport closely related to bowls and pétanque with a common ancestry from ancient games played in the Roman Empire. Developed into its present form in Italy, it is played around Europe and also in overseas countries that have received Italian migrants, including the United States, Canada, Australia and Argentina, initially amongst the migrants themselves but slowly becoming more popular with their descendants and the wider community. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bocce"
Boccia is a competitive sport, similar to bowls (but closer to bocce as the balls are not biased), but designed to be played by people with disabilities - specifically, cerebral palsy and other locomotor disabilities (those which affect motor skills). It is an official Paralympic sport, and is played in over forty countries worldwide. ...more on Wikipedia about "Boccia"
Croquet is a recreational game and, latterly, a competitive sport that involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass playing arena. ...more on Wikipedia about "Croquet"
Disc Golf (also known as folf or frolf for frisbee golf) is a game based on the rules of golf (referred to by disc golfers as "ball golf" or "stick golf"). It uses flying discs which are similar to the Frisbee, but usually smaller and more dense. The discs are thrown towards a target, which serves as the "hole". The targets can range from objects, such as trees and poles, to metal baskets with hanging chains to catch the discs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Disc golf"
Feather Bowling is a game played with wooden balls shaped like wheels of cheese. The balls are rolled down a dirt or synthetic alley towards a feather sticking out of the dirt at the other end. The object of the game is to get the ball as close to the feather as possible. Teams take turns rolling 12 balls and may knock their opponent's balls out of the way, similar to Bocce. The team with balls closest to the feather at the end of the game wins. ...more on Wikipedia about "Feather Bowling"
Five-pin bowling is a bowling variant which is popular in Canada, where many bowling alleys offer it, either alone or in combination with ten-pin bowling. It was devised in the early twentieth century to offer bowlers the chance to play a game during a half-hour lunch break. This goal was achieved by using smaller balls which travel faster than ten-pin balls and which can be thrown in rapid succession. Five-pin bowling was invented in 1909 by Thomas F. Ryan in Toronto, Ontario. ...more on Wikipedia about "Five-pin bowling"
Golf (gowf in Scots) is a game where individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole using various clubs, and is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed standard playing area. It is defined in the Rules of Golf as "playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules." ...more on Wikipedia about "Golf"
Irish road bowling is an ancient sport. It is centered in Ireland in County Armagh and County Cork, in Boston, MA, New Zealand and is growing in in the fairs and festivals of the State of West Virginia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Irish Road Bowling"
Kyudo (弓道) (The " Way of the Bow") is the Japanese art of archery. It is a modern Japanese martial art (a gendai budo). ...more on Wikipedia about "Kyudo"
Kyykkä is an ancient sport played in Carelia, Finland, and Estonia. It is known by a large number of different names, such as kurnilöömine, kriuhka, köllöi, keili, and papin tappaminen. The last one is Finnish and literally translates as "killing the priest". The basic aim of the game is to remove skittles from a designated area at the playing field by throwing a bat at them. Kyykkä is most often played in teams. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kyykkä"
Mölkky is a Finnish throwing game which originated in the Päijänne Tavastia region in Southern Finland. It is reminiscent of kyykkä, another Finnish throwing game with Carelian roots. However, mölkky does not require as much physical strength as kyykkä, and is more suitable for everyone regardless of age and condition. Mölkky requires no special equipment and success is based on a combination of chance and skill. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mölkky"
Pall mall (pronounced pal-mal or pell-mell) or palle maille was a game played in the 16th and 17th centuries, and a precursor to croquet. The name comes from the Italian pallamaglio, which literally means "ball-mallet". It was played in a long alley with an iron hoop suspended over the ground at the end. The object was to strike a boxwood ball of about 1 foot (30cm) in circumference (about the same size as a modern croquet ball) with a heavy wooden mallet along the alley and through the hoop with the fewest hits possible. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pall mall"
Pétanque is a form of boules where the goal is to throw metal balls as close as possible to a jack (a small wooden ball called a cochonnet in French, which means piglet). The game is normally played on hard sand or gravel, but can also be played on grass or any other surface. Similar games are bocce and bowls. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pétanque"
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As a subset of pub games, pub sports include traditional pastimes such as darts, billiards, and skittles. Unlike parlour games, or gambling games of chance like cards and dice, all of which are also often played in bars, pubs, and taverns, Pub Sports require exertion, coordination, and dexterity in particular physical skills. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pub sports"
Shuffleboard is a game where players push a small disk in a narrow elongated play area with the purpose of positioning it within a marked area. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shuffleboard"
Skittles is an old European target sport, from which Ten-pin bowling and Candlepin bowling in the United States, and Five-pin bowling in Canada are descended. In the United Kingdom the game remains a very popular pub sport in England and Wales, though it tends to be found in particular regions, not nation-wide. It is perhaps most common in the south west counties of Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire and South Wales. It is very popular in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Skittles (sport)"
Ten-Pin Bowling is a sport with a simple aim—knock down as many pins as possible by rolling a ball along a pathway called the "lane." The lane is bordered by gutters along both sides which serve to collect errant balls which would not knock down any pins. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ten-pin bowling"
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