Which New Sport Should You Try?

Four questions, then a shortlist from 17 emerging sports.

1. How do you like to play?
2. Where will you play most?
3. How do you feel about contact?
4. What do you want in your hands (or at your feet)?

Every Sport in the Quiz

  • Beach Tennis: Tennis scoring on sand with stringless rackets and low-compression balls, no bounce allowed. Rules source
  • POP Tennis: Tennis shrunk down: smaller court, solid paddle, low-compression ball, mostly doubles. Rules source
  • Padel: Doubles racket sport on an enclosed 20 x 10 m court where the walls stay in play. Rules source
  • Platform Tennis: Cold-weather doubles on a heated raised deck inside wire screens that stay in play. Rules source
  • Footvolley: Beach volleyball rules, but no hands, arms or forearms: two-on-two on sand. Rules source
  • Padbol: Soccer on a small glass-walled court with a low net, two-on-two, born in Argentina in 2010. Rules source
  • Sepak Takraw: Three-a-side kick volleyball with a woven ball: feet, legs, chest and head only. Rules source
  • Speedgate: Six-a-side field game designed with AI in 2019: kick through the center gate, then score at an end gate. Rules source
  • Teqball: Soccer skills over a curved table, singles or doubles, with no physical contact allowed. Rules source
  • Cageball: Either a giant 4 to 6 ft pushball for big groups or a caged three-a-side soccer game. Rules source
  • Flag Football: Five-a-side, non-contact American football where defenders pull a flag; on the LA 2028 Olympic program. Rules source
  • Kin-Ball: Three teams of four at once with a 1.22 m ball; call a color, and that team must catch it. Rules source
  • Spikeball: Two-on-two, up to three touches, then spike the ball onto a round net; no sides after the serve. Rules source
  • Tchoukball: Seven-a-side handball variant where you score off rebound frames and interceptions are banned. Rules source
  • Chess Boxing: One-on-one, alternating rounds of fast chess and amateur boxing; win by checkmate or knockout. Rules source
  • Floorball: Six-a-side indoor stick-and-ball game like hockey, with a plastic ball and strict limits on contact. Rules source
  • Jugger: Five-a-side: a runner tries to score with a foam ball while teammates tag opponents with padded pompfen. Rules source

Browse the full new sports guides for rules, history and where each is played in the US.