Key:sport

+/- sport Description For categorising any specific sport. Group Sport Element help Used combinations in World Australia/Oceania Europe (list) Asia (list) Central America (list) South America (list) Africa (list)

Description

The sport=* tag is used to identify one or more sports which can be played within or on some physical feature. A list of sports is given below. Note that both football and rugby are to be avoided; please use american_football, australian_football, canadian_football, rugby_league, rugby_union or soccer, as appropriate.

A sport should normally also be associated with a suitable physical feature on which it is played; often this is leisure=pitch or leisure=track although other surfaces or features are sometimes appropriate, for example leisure=swimming_pool for swimming and diving. A leisure=sports_centre may be associated with a number of sports. Where individual sports are played at distinct identifiable places then identify the sport with the particular pitch etc. Where a number of sports are associated with a single feature then separate the sports with a ';', for example 'gymnastics;badminton'.

Associated tags

Since this is a non-physical tag it should be combined with one of these (physical) tags:

• leisure=sports_centre
• leisure=stadium
• leisure=track (athletics, cycling, motor, horse_racing, ...)
• leisure=pitch
• leisure=golf_course (golf, jogging, walking, ...)
• leisure=water_park
• leisure=swimming_pool (swimming, diving, gymnastics, ...)
• landuse=recreation_ground
• landuse=piste (skiing, hiking, paragliding, ...)
• tourism=hotel (swimming, golf, tennis, ...)
• amenity=restaurant (10pin, ...)
• amenity=pub (billiard, darts, pinball, table_soccer ...)
• ?=*

Rendering

The colour of areas should be determined by the physical tags mentioned above. The sport-tag itself should only result in an appropriate icon. When there's no other (physical) tag some default color could be applied, though this wouldn't encourage proper mapping.

Core values

Key	Value	Element	Comment	Rendering	Photo
sport	9pin		9-pin Bowling (on Wikipedia) - bowling game played in Europe with only 9 pins
sport	10pin		10-pin Bowling (on Wikipedia)
sport	american_football		American Football. Tag introduced June 2010 in preference to use of the confusing sport=football
sport	archery		The different variations of this sport can be specified by also adding a type=* tag. Values for this type=* tag are e.g.: FITA, field, 3D, ... See also Archery on Wikipedia
sport	athletics		Track and field athletics. A collection of sports events that involve running, throwing and jumping (on Wikipedia).
sport	australian_football		Australian Rules Football. A team sport played between two teams of 18 players with a ball on large oval shaped grass fields (often also used as a cricket ground), with four goal posts at each end.(on Wikipedia)
sport	BASE		Buildings, Antennae, Span & Earth. A more down to earth approach to parachuting (on Wikipedia)
sport	badminton		An indoor sport played with a shuttlecock and racquet, played as singles or in teams of two (on Wikipedia).
sport	baseball		An outdoor bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams of nine players each on a large grass pitch (on Wikipedia)
sport	basketball		Basketball, very popular in the USA and the Philippines (on Wikipedia)
sport	beachvolleyball		beachvolleyball on Wikipedia
sport	bmx		BMX on Wikipedia.
sport	boules		A collective name for games played with metal balls, popular in France (on Wikipedia). The different variations of this sport can be specified by also adding a type=* tag. Values for this type=* tag are e.g.: petanque, lyonnaise, extreme, ...
sport	bowls		Lawn bowls (on Wikipedia)
sport	canadian_football		Canadian Football.
sport	canoe		Canoeing (both canadian and kayaks)
sport	chess		Chess (on Wikipedia) - here mostly intended: big chess-boards in the open air
sport	climbing		Rock climbing - natural or artificial climbs (climbing walls) (on Wikipedia)
sport	cricket		A bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of eleven players, each on a large grass pitch (on Wikipedia)
sport	cricket_nets		Cricket nets for practice used by batsmen and bowlers to warm up and/or improve their cricketing techniques. (on Wikipedia)
sport	croquet		A game played between 2 or more players on a small grass pitch hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass. (on Wikipedia)
sport	cycling				80px
sport	diving
sport	dog_racing
sport	fencing		fencing on Wikipedia
sport	equestrian		Equestrianism, sports involving the skill of riding or driving horses (on Wikipedia). Often associated internationally with show jumping and dressage, but also including endurance riding, eventing, reining, tent pegging, vaulting, polo, horse racing, driving, rodeo and more. See also sport=horse_racing
sport	football		DO NOT USE THIS TAG, as it is ambiguous. Use: soccer, rugby_league, rugby_union, australian_football, ...
sport	gaelic_games		Gaelic games such as Hurling, Gaelic Football, Camogie, predominantly played in Ireland. For tagging individual games under this category see the tag page.
sport	golf		for golf courses, use leisure=golf_course
sport	gymnastics
sport	hockey
sport	horseshoes		horseshoes on Wikipedia
sport	horse_racing
sport	ice_stock		Use with: leisure=pitch. Eisstockschießen on Wikipedia
sport	karting		For a description of this motor sport, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kart_racing . When used together with highway=raceway then please add also area=no, otherwise the raceway is not rendered.
sport	korfball		(korfball on Wikipedia)
sport	motor
sport	multi
sport	orienteering		(Orienteering club or centre). Navigation sport with Map and compass.
sport	paddle_tennis		(paddle_tennis on Wikipedia)
sport	paragliding		Paragliding takeoff or landing site (paragliding on Wikipedia)
sport	free_flying		Paragliding/Hanggliding/... takeoff, landings, towing, etc. and related amenities and properties
sport	pelota		Spanish Groupname for a number of ball games (Baseball, Basque pelota, Bocce, Jai alai, Valencian pilota). (pelota on Wikipedia)
sport	racquet		Group name of sports that are played with a rackuet
sport	rowing		(rowing on Wikipedia)
sport	rugby_league		One of the two codes of rugby football, split from rugby union in 1895, along with subsequent rule changes
sport	rugby_union		Rugby union is a full contact team sport, a form of football which originated in England in the early 19th century.
sport	shooting		outdoor or indoor shooting range
sport	skating		ice skating
sport	skateboard
sport	skiing		This tag isn't well documented, and it's usage is unclear. I would better recommand the use of the Proposed_features/Piste_Maps Project for things related to skiing
sport	soccer		Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, a team sport played between two teams of eleven players (on Wikipedia). Note: While called "football" (fussball, fotball, ...) in many countries, it is best to tag it as "soccer" to avoid confusion with other usages of "football"
sport	surfing		(surfing on Wikipedia)
sport	swimming
sport	table_tennis
sport	team_handball		(Team) handball on Wikipedia
sport	tennis		Tennis courts
sport	toboggan		public sledding run; see also Piste Map Proposal (piste:type=sled, piste:difficulty=advanced, piste:lit=yes)
sport	volleyball		volleyball on Wikipedia
sport	water_ski		Waterskiing: either on a cable ski course, or pulled by a boat.
sport	user defined		All commonly used values according to Taginfo

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