A hybrid sport is one which combines two or more (often similar) sports in order to create a new sport, or to allow meaningful competition between players of those sports.
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Bossaball – a hybrid sport combining elements of volleyball, association football, gymnastics, and Capoeira, played on a field with three bases, there is a trampoline at the third base along with a net. Allowing players to bounce high to spike or touch the ball and touch it with any part of the body, especially arms and hands
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Chess boxing – a hybrid sport which combines the sport of boxing with games of chess in alternating rounds. Chess boxing fights have been organized since early 2003. The sport was started when Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh, inspired by fictional descriptions of the sport in the writing of Enki Bilal, organized matches. The sport has become increasingly popular since then. To succeed players must be both skilled chess players and skilled boxers. Circle rules football – a hybrid of association football, volleyball, basketball, wrestling, and rugby, with a goal located on the center of circle field. Composite rules shinty-hurling – The Irish sports of hurling or camogie combined with the Scottish sport of shinty. Composite rules softball-baseball - a hybrid bat-and-ball sports which combines the elements of baseball and softball, played on the large identical baseball diamond with the larger ball, ten rather than nine innings, and both underarm and overarm pitchings. Cross-country BigBall - a golf-like sport where players use soccer balls and baseball bats to race to a goal. Cycle ball - a hybrid sport combined bicycle and Futsal D Disc golf – a hybrid Frisbee with elements of golf. Double disc court - a combined of Frisbee and Volleyball
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Foobaskill – an other hybrid of association football and basketball
Football tennis – a hybrid of association football and tennis
Footgolf – a hybrid of association football and golf
Footvolley – a hybrid of Beach football and Beach volleyball
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Hakoball – a hybrid of handball and korfball
Hurlacrosse – a hybrid of hurling and lacrosse
Hybrid martial arts – a full contact individual combat sports which allowed to use the wide range of all aspects and techniques of several different martial arts and combat sports. Hybrid rugby – a hybrid of rugby union and rugby league
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International rules football – a combination of Gaelic football and Australian rules football. The International Rules Series, an annual series of two games between representative teams from Ireland and Australia, attracted sell-out crowds during its 2006 edition.
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Kronum – a field sport mixing elements of association football, handball and basketball
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Nashball – a field sport mixing elements of association football, fistball, basketball, ultimate frisbee, and volleyball using horizontal end zone goals and strict no open-hand contact and strike.
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Padel - A hybrid of tennis and squash. Pickleball - A hybrid of ping-pong, tennis, and badminton. Polocrosse - A hybrid of polo and lacrosse, played on horseback. R Rap-7 ball – an other hybrid of baseball and cricket which played under the baseball rules Roll ball – a unique combination of roller skating, basketball and handball which played under the handball rules
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Samoa Rules – A hybrid of rugby union and Australian rules football
Segway Rugpolocrosse - A field sport which combines elements of Segway polo, rugby, and lacrosse, played on the segway rather than horse, allowing players to run with it either in hands or in the netted racket of lacrosse stick, and contact, impede, and tackle each other with the player's body, lacrosse stick, and segway. Slamball - a full-contact team hybrid sports which will combine elements of basketball, American football, ice hockey, acrobatics, and video games, played on the basketball court, surrounded by hockey-style plexiglass walls, with two sets of four trampolines at the front of net and boards around the edges of this court. Spikeball - a hybrid sport of Volleyball and trampoline Sepak takraw - a hybrid of association football and volleyball; an indoor version of footvolley