Ways to use this list
- Olympic project: each pupil spins a sport and researches its rules, its equipment and a city that has hosted it.
- Sports day theme: spin a sport for each class to adopt, then design a team flag and a warm-up inspired by it.
- Quiz round: spin a sport and teams answer how many players are on a side, or what the equipment is called.
- Try-it challenge: spin a summer sport each month and find a local club or school session where you can have a go.
- Winter Games evening: press Winter (2026) and spin to decide which event the family learns about next.
Press Spin the wheel, tap the game or press the Space bar. Change the list in the box as you
like: add your own, delete what doesn't suit you, or write *2 after an entry to give it double the
chance. The game buttons switch the same list to a duck race, hat, claw machine and more.
The full list (63 entries)
- Archery
- Artistic gymnastics
- Artistic swimming
- Athletics
- Badminton
- Basketball
- 3x3 basketball
- Beach volleyball
- BMX freestyle
- BMX racing
- Boxing
- Breaking
- Canoe slalom
- Canoe sprint
- Diving
- Dressage
- Eventing
- Show jumping
- Fencing
- Football (soccer)
- Golf
- Handball
- Field hockey
- Judo
- Marathon swimming
- Modern pentathlon
- Mountain biking
- Rhythmic gymnastics
- Road cycling
- Rowing
- Rugby sevens
- Sailing
- Shooting
- Skateboarding
- Sport climbing
- Surfing
- Swimming
- Table tennis
- Taekwondo
- Tennis
- Track cycling
- Trampoline
- Triathlon
- Volleyball
- Water polo
- Weightlifting
- Wrestling
- Alpine skiing
- Biathlon
- Bobsleigh
- Cross-country skiing
- Curling
- Figure skating
- Freestyle skiing
- Ice hockey
- Luge
- Nordic combined
- Short track speed skating
- Skeleton
- Ski jumping
- Ski mountaineering
- Snowboard
- Speed skating
📖 Related guide: How to make fair random teams
Questions people ask
Which sports are on the Olympic sport wheel?
All 47 disciplines from the 2024 Summer Games in Paris, with wrestling counted once, plus all 16 from the 2026 Winter Games in Italy: 63 in total. The buttons split them into summer, winter and team sports. This is our own classroom list, made for learning, and it has no connection with the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
What are the most unusual Olympic sports?
Many people pick modern pentathlon, which in Paris combined fencing, swimming, riding, running and shooting, plus skeleton, curling, biathlon and the newest arrival, ski mountaineering. Press Unusual sports for a wheel of them.
Which sports are new at the 2028 Summer Games?
The 2028 Games in Los Angeles add cricket, flag football, lacrosse and squash, and bring back baseball and softball. Breaking, which made its debut in Paris, is not on the 2028 programme.
How many sports are in the Olympics?
It changes with every Games. Paris 2024 had 32 sports split into 48 disciplines, and the 2026 Winter Games had 8 sports and 16 disciplines. A sport such as aquatics covers several disciplines, like diving and water polo.
Which sports have been at every modern Summer Games?
Five have featured at every Summer Games since Athens in 1896: athletics, cycling, fencing, gymnastics and swimming. Land on one of them and you have a sport with well over a century of Olympic history to research.