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Pictorial examples of beach sports. Left to right, top to bottom: beach handball, sand yachting, beach flags, sandboarding, beach wrestling, beach soccer, beach volleyball, frescobol/matkot, and beach racing.
Beach sports
are a classification of
sport
activities which are conducted on a
sand
surface. They are traditionally associated with being played on a natural, coastal sand
beach
, but also often take place on artificially constructed in-land playing fields using imported sand.
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Some beach sports are played on hard, compacted and smooth sand, whilst others are played on soft, loose and uneven sand; a handful are played on both. Many are sand-based adaptations of sports already well established on other surfaces;
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most are played in smaller playing areas than their parent sports due to the more difficult and exhausting nature of traversing such a yielding terrain.
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The popularity and range of beach sports has experienced a notable rise since the emergence of pro
beach volleyball
as a successful commercial venture in the
1980s
.
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Beach sports are practiced from a range of casual and non-competitive to
professional
-level competition.
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The definition of beach sports is also frequently extended to include
water sports
conducted in an ocean or similar
waterbody
, overlooked by an adjacent beach which forms an integral part of the aesthetic and
culture
of such sports; this list excludes these.
List of beach sports
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This list is not intended to be exhaustive.
It is important to note that most of the codified sports below are also frequently complemented by casual manifestations ? typically impromptu, improvised, and loose interpretations of their, or their parent sport's, rules and arrangements; self-declared versions of that sport for said session of play by its participants.
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- Air badminton
? derivative of badminton, intended to be played outdoors using a modified
shuttlecock
on non-conventional surfaces, including sand.
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- Beach basketball
? derivative of
basketball
; various permutations and magnitude of departure from parent sport depending on the organising body (sometimes played with one, neutral, backboard-less hoop), but all without dribbling due to the nature of the playing surface and therefore relaxed rules on
travelling
.
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- Beach cricket
? derivative of
cricket
, almost always informally played, with improvised,
on the fly
rules. However, most games involve no teams (it's the batter versus everyone else and therefore unlimited participants), the batter being obliged to run on any sort of hit, and a hit into the sea being six and out. Usually played on firm sand to aid bowling, using a
tennis ball
.
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- Beach flag football
? derivative of
flag football
(itself a derivative of
American football
), similar to parent sport but played barefoot, four-a-side, with shorter match lengths and less time for the
quarterback
to release the ball after the
snap
.
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- Beach flags
? Australian
lifesaving
activity to practice sprinting across soft sand; competitors run towards a limited set of flags wedged into the sand a distance away in an attempt to retrieve one (the concept operates very similar to
musical chairs
, eliminating one competitor per round by reducing the available flags each time until there is a winner).
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- Beach golf
? derivative of
golf
, with a major emphasis on treating all objects present as obstacles (e.g. deckchairs, bathers etc.); a soft
polyurethane
ball is used to prevent injuries to other beach users.
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- Beach handball
? derivative of
handball
, played outdoors with half as many outfield players and virtually no dribbling due to the nature of the playing surface. Matches are contested as best-of-three sets affairs, with the third played as a tiebreaking
shootout
if needed; extra points are awarded for speciality goals.
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- Beach hockey
? derivative of
field hockey
, played five-a-side with a larger ball and using sticks with holes in to allow the sand to pass through; goals are allowed to be scored from anywhere.
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- Beach motorsport racing
? derivative of
motocross
; very similar to parent sport but held on tracks marked out on beaches and/or sand dunes, often with the inclusion of man-made sand-jumps.
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- Beach polo
? derivative of
polo
; rules operate very similar to parent sport but is played in an enclosed arena with an inflated ball rather than a solid one and with one or two fewer players.
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- Beach rugby
? derivative of
rugby union
, usually played six-a-side with a smaller ball and just one point awarded per
try
; matches are only 10 minutes long and notably lack key features of parent sport such as
scrums
,
line-outs
and goalposts.
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- Beach soccer
? derivative of
association football
on soft sand, played
five-a-side
with
rolling substitutions
, using a lighter ball to be struck barefooted and no
offsides
. Matches are divided into three 12-minute periods; the clock counts down to zero and is stopped while play is inactive due to fouls and injuries. Matches always end with a winner, going to a penalty shootout if necessary.
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- Beach tennis
? derivative of
lawn tennis
, played entirely through
vollies
due to the ball being unable to bounce on sand; the ball is more depressurized than usual to cause it to travel more slowly and allow for longer rallies. The net is also raised much higher; beach volleyball courts are typically utilised for play. Solid paddle bats are typically used, rather than stringed
tennis rackets
.
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- Beach ultimate
? derivative of
ultimate frisbee
; rules operate very similar to parent sport but most notably is played with fewer players (usually five-a-side, sometimes four).
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- Beach volleyball
? derivative of
volleyball
played outdoors on soft sand, using a slightly larger and lighter ball, typically in two teams of two or occasionally four without substitutes, and best of three sets rather than five. Beach attire is a core aesthetic.
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Currently the only
Olympic
beach sport.
- Beach wrestling
? a
stand-up style
of wrestling, no
ground fighting
takes place; three minute matches, first to three points wins, whereby one point is awarded for a
takedown
or forcing the opponent out of the circle and three points for putting the opponent on their back. It takes place outdoors within a seven-metre diameter sand circle; participants wear beach attire or swimwear.
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- Boules
? usually a form of
petanque
played recreationally by beach-goers in a
party game
-like fashion on soft or hard sand, frequently with specially, popularly derived coloured plastic balls.
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- Footvolley
? derivative of beach volleyball, in which players are only allowed to use their feet to touch the ball; a
football
is also used in place of a
volleyball
.
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- Frescobol
? played with solid, traditionally wooden
rackets
; typically between two players, the non-competitive aim is to maintain an airborne rally with a small rubber ball for as long as possible.
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- Kite buggying
? participants sit in a one-seater,
three-wheeled
, powerless
buggy
whilst flying a
power kite
in front of them to move and steer the vehicle across firm sand.
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- Kite landboarding
? based on
kitesurfing
, participants ride a
mountainboard
whilst flying a kite to pull them across firm sand, typically performing
tricks
similar to
skateboarding
, both on the ground and aerially; the latter is possible as participants are able to momentarily pull themselves a few metres into the air using the power of the kite's
lift
.
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- Matkot
? virtually identical to Frescobol described above, but played with louder, hollower and rounder rackets; the Israeli sport pre-dates its Brazilian counterpart by thirty years.
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- Neppis
? involves moving a small model car around a miniature race track built into sand by tapping it with a finger; each player takes turns to "nep" their car and the first to cross the finish line wins.
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- Roundnet
? adapted from volleyball, two teams of two surround a small circular
trampoline
-like net placed on the ground and alternate returning a ball to their opponents via bouncing it off the net within three touches; failure to do so rewards opponents with a point. Played on multiple surfaces, frequently including sand.
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- Sand yachting
? like
water sailing
, but conducted across firm sand in a three (or sometimes four) wheeled vehicle powered by wind through the use of a sail, and steered by
pedals
or hand
levers
; typically involves racing.
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- Sandboarding
? comparable to
snowboarding
, in which participants attempt to traverse across or down a
sand dune
while standing freely, or strapped onto, a
sandboard
.
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Beach multi-sport events
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The worldwide growth of beach sports has given birth to multiple
Olympic
-style
multi-sport events
dedicated in large part to beach sports competition (
water sports
are also usually included).
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The following lists major international beach multi-sport events:
- Global
- Regional
See also
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References
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the construction of beach sports courts away from the seashore requires the use of the right quality sand
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