Here are all the 'P' sports from over 800 sports listed on our complete list of sports. There are many P sports. Pole Climbing was once demonstrated at the Olympics, and Pole Dancing would like to be in the Olympics, though the P sport of modern times is Parkour.

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 'P'.

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'P' Sports

  • Paddle Tennis — a variation of tennis on a smaller court, lower net, using a solid paddle and ball.
  • Paddleball (1 wall) — a small rubber ball is hit against a single wall with a solid paddle.
  • Paddleball (4 wall) — like racquetball/squash but played with a solid paddle racket.
  • Paddleboarding — a person kneels or lies prone on a board and uses their arms and hands to propel themselves through the water.
  • Padel — a mix of tennis and squash, played on a much smaller court with walls and a solid paddle racket.
  • Paintball — a skirmish sport in which players compete to eliminate opponents by tagging them with capsules containing water-soluble dye propelled from paintball guns.
  • Palant — a Polish sport with lots of similarities to modern baseball played using a wooden stick and a rubber ball.
  • Paleta Frontón — a wall-based racquet sport that originated in Peru.
  • Palla — a traditional street game played in villages of Italy.
  • Pankration (Amateur) — A modern version of the Ancient Olympic sport of Pankration.
  • Parachuting — also known as skydiving, involving jumping from an aircraft with just a parachute.
  • Para-Climbing — Sport Climbing for disabled athletes.
  • Para-Cycling — cycle racing events using adaptations for disabled athletes, such as tandem bikes and hand-cycling.
  • Paragliding — riders using para-gliders perform cross country or acrobatic maneuvers.
  • Parallel Bars — an artistic gymnastics discipline performed by men which comprises predominantly of swings and vaults with two parallel bars.
  • Paratriathlon — involves a 750 m swim, a 20 km bike with handcycles, bicycles or tandems with a guide, and a 5 km wheelchair or running race.
  • Pärk (or Paerk) — an outdoor team sport that originated in Gotland, where players hit or kick the ball to gain field position.
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  • Parkour — activity involving overcoming obstacles in an urban space.
  • Park Skateboarding — skaters perform tricks in on a course like a familiar skate park containing bowls and pools in a complex combination with ramps and course bends.
  • Patball — schoolyard game played with hands or head for hitting the ball against a wall.
  • Pato — a cross between Polo and Basketball played on horseback. It is the national sport of Argentina. A similar sport is Horseball.
  • Pehlwani — a form of wrestling from South Asia. A win is achieved by pinning the opponent's shoulders and hips to the ground simultaneously.
  • Pelota Mixteca — an ancient game similar to tennis without a net, the ball is hit with decorated gloves.
  • Pencak Silat — a fighting sport from Indonesia which collectively encompasses martial arts of various styles.
  • Pesäpallo — a Finnish variation of Baseball, the major difference is that the ball is pitched vertically.
  • Pétanque — a type of boules in which the objective is to throw hollow metal balls towards a small wooden target ball.
  • Peteca — played by hitting the shuttlecock with your hand over a high net.
  • Pickleball — a non-contact racket sport that is similar to badminton, tennis, and table tennis.
  • Picigin — a traditional water sport from Croatia in which the aim is to prevent a small ball from touching the surface of the water.
  • Pigeon Racing — the objective is for each pigeon to return back to its home as fast as possible.
  • Ping Pong — a popular name for Table Tennis.
  • Pitch and Putt — like golf, but on shorter holes and only a putter and a wedge are allowed.
  • Pitton — a net and racket-based sport played with a hard pickleball paddle and a badminton shuttlecock.
  • Platform Tennis — a variation of tennis with modified equipment on a much smaller court surrounded on all sides by a fence.
  • Playboating (freestyle canoing) — a whitewater sport in which athletes on kayaks or canoes perform various moves in a fixed place called the playspot.
  • Pleasure Driving — a horse and carriage sport judged on a horse's manners, performance, quality and conformation.
  • Pocket Billiards — also known as Pool, it is the name for a range of Cue Sports played on a table with six pockets along the rails, into which the main aim is to hit balls into the pockets. There are hundreds of pool games - popular versions include Eight-Ball and Nine-Ball, as well as Ten-Ball, Straight Pool, One-Pocket and Bank Pool.
  • Poker — a card game that combines gambling, strategy, and skill. The winner of each hand is determined according to the combinations of players' cards.
  • Pole Climbing — involves climbing very high wooden poles.
  • Pole Dancing — participants perform various types of acrobatic moves like spins, climbs, twists and body inversions around a pole.
  • Pole Vault — an athletics event in which a competitor leaps over a bar using a flexible pole.
  • Polo (Horse Polo) — a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to hit a ball into a goal using a long-handled mallet. Variations include Snow Polo,Elephant Polo, Cycle Polo, Yak Polo, Cowboy Polo plus many more.
  • Polocrosse — an equestrian sport combining the sports of lacrosse and polo.
  • Pommel Horse — a male artistic gymnastics event in which the gymnast performs routines atop a symbolic horse.
  • Pond Hockey — a version of ice hockey played on a natural frozen body of water.
  • Pool — a common name for the cue sport of Pocket Billiards.
  • Popinjay — a shooting sport with either bows or rifles, in which the bird-like target is suspended from a pole.
  • Power Hockey — like ice hockey but played in an electric wheelchair on a basketball court.
  • Power Boat Racing — ocean-going powerboats race against each other.
  • Powerchair Football — indoor football for people in wheelchairs.
  • Powerlifting — tests of strength on three lifts: dead lift, bench press and squat.
  • Practical shooting — dynamic shooting sport using handguns and moving and shooting over obstacles.
  • Pradal Serey — a type of kickboxing from Cambodia. Also known as Kun Khmer.
  • Prizefighting — another name for bare-knuckle boxing.
  • Pushball — a team sport played with a large ball in which the objective is to push the ball through the opponent’s goalposts.