History Main / FictionalSport

* ''ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}}'' has Magnoball, which can only be played by those capable of MagnetismManipulation. Both ComicBook/CosmicBoy and his brother are former champions in some versions, as is [=WorkForce=] member Repulse.

* Alphatians in the ''TabletopGame/{{Mystara}}'' D&D setting are big-time fans of a team sport called hardball, which is played on a court divided into squares and involves a lot of complicated passing between players.

** The Witches, particularly Nanny Ogg, play a card game called "Cripple Mr Onion" which appears to be something between poker and whist.

* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''. One word: Drownball. Fighter's historic victory was due to him technically losing (his brain consumes much less oxygen, so he didn't drown as fast as the other players) but as the only living player, he had to be declared the winner.

These are sometimes {{defictionalized}} if the source material gives enough information for fans to base it (and sometimes even if it doesn't). How difficult this is to do and how accurate of a recreation is even possible varies pretty significantly, of course. A fake card game can be created pretty easily, while a sport requiring advanced technology, magic, or superhuman athleticism just to play will obviously be impossible to accurately recreate. That said, you'll be amazed how creative fans can be.

These are sometimes {{defictionalized}} if the source material gives enough information for fans to base it off of (and sometimes even if it doesn't). How difficult this is to do and how accurate of a recreation is even possible varies pretty significantly, of course. A fake card game can be created pretty easily, while a sport requiring advanced technology, magic, or superhuman athleticism just to play will obviously be impossible to accurately recreate. That said, you'll be amazed how creative fans can be.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'': [[GladiatorGames "The Games"]] in Thundera's [[TheThunderdome Thunderdome:]] A racing ChaseFight between two Cat competitors climbing, swinging, jumping and running up a tree to to ring a bell at its top, [[BloodSport violent]] kicking and punching included. RingOut involves knocking a player off the tree into a pool of water.

* ''Franchise/LapisReLights'' has Bumpball. It's like dodgeball except with the addition of magic, 1 type and 1 spell per player.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has Blernsball. It appears briefly in the first season, and it's Baseball plus Calvinball as Fry has no idea what the rules are and nothing is explained. When it shows up again in the third season in an episode focused around Leela becoming a professional player, it's basically just baseball with the ball on a stretchy tether, although a few of the other changes that were made to "jazz it up" made the transition as well.

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* ''Series/TheGilliesReport'' featured sports bulletins describing the fortunes of the Australian farnarkling team, and, in particular, its captain and star player, the accident prone 'Big Dave' Sorenson. From what can be determined from the descriptions, the sport is fast moving, high scoring, and violent. The humour primarily from John clarke's deadpam delivery of bizarre descriptions of the action, and the application of sporting cliches to a sport no one understands.

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* "Louis Kazagger's Wide World of Muppet Sports" was a recurring sketch on ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', where Kazagger would report on such sports as blindfold racing, cross-country billiards, and tree staring.
* ''Series/TheFurchesterHotel'': The episode "Furball" has [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Furball, which is played with a Furball]] - a spherical monster with PokemonSpeak. Elmo and Pheobe don't know how to play, but spend most of the episode hunting for the Furball throughout the hotel [[spoiler: which turns out to be how you play Furball]].
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* The TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}} supplement ''Shadowbeat'' includes full descriptions of the new Sixth World sports of Combat Biker and Urban Brawl, as well as information about how cyberware has revolutionized boxing, baseball, basketball, and (especially!) American football.
* Alphatians in the TabletopGame/{{Mystara}} D&D setting are big-time fans of a team sport called hardball, which is played on a court divided into squares and involves a lot of complicated passing between players.

* Many {{Racing Game}}s often use this as a premise, especially if they are set in the future or have unconventional vehicles. Examples include:
** ''VideoGame/BattleCars'' is a BloodSport for an overcrowded populace in a CrapsackWorld.
** ''VideoGame/ExtremeG'' is a race with armed and rocket-powered hyperbikes.
** ''VideoGame/FZero'' is another futuristic racer, this time on magnetic tracks high above the city with numerous alien participants.
** ''VideoGame/JetMoto'' features all-terrain antigravity bikes with magnetic grapples.
** ''VideoGame/{{Rollcage}}'' is a VehicularCombat racer where destroying the landscape is part of the rules.
** ''VideoGame/RocketLeague'' can be best described as soccer with super-cars that defy the laws of physics.
** The ''VideoGame/{{Wipeout}}'' series, where league advancement is based on both position taken and opponents eliminated.
** The ''VideoGame/SonicRiders'' series is a futuristic racing game involving hoverboards, hover bikes, hover skates, and hover-all-kinds-of-other-stuff.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' heavily features Blitzball. It's basically something like handball or soccer, but with full contact (and the use of ones entire body). The only usual element is that the game is played entirely in a sphere of water suspened in the air.

%%* In ''VideoGame/StarControlII'', the Zoq-Fot-Pik are obsessed with a sport called Frungy, to the point where they keep mentioning it in unrelated conversations, but they never quite get around to explaining what it actually involves.
%%** WordOfGod only says, "Whatever it is, it's played with GUSTO!"

* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** One item from the newsfeed had humans trying to break into the turian sport of clawball.
** Another had the "Biotic Games" implying an entire range of sports using biotics.

* ''VisualNovel/AnOctaveHigher'' has Sorcer, in which two sorcerers compete in a hexagonal arena to break any two of the other player's three crystals using magic. You can also win by knocking the other player unconscious.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has Footbomb, where players pilot humanoid mecha in an attempt to kick a ball between two goal posts on a field that resembles an American Football field.

* ''VideoGame/{{Hiveswap}}'' has Field Stickball, which is sort of like a game of Human Pool except the balls are bigger and have gimmicks attached to them, there are multiple cues running around, and it's [[BloodSport near-lethal]] to play (much like everything else on Alternia).

* ''VideoGame/TheSimsMedieval'' has Kingball, a sport similar to tennis but played on a triangular field with three players instead of two, and a ball similar in size and shape to a volleyball.
* ''VideoGame/TheOuterWorlds'' has Tossball, which appears to be somewhat like a much more violent version of lacrosse. Tossball sticks and padding can be used as weapons and armor, respectively.
* ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeFederationForce'' has Blast Ball, which is basically soccer with giant mechs with guns.
* ''VideoGame/{{Blaseball}}'': While the game of Blaseball ''is'' similar to [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} the real-world sport of baseball]], its rules have some differences. Not to mention that in baseball, players don't usually get incinerated by umpires.

* Smackball, a new sport mentioned in ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie'''s DistantFinale, [[Recap/PennyAndAggieSixSeptembersLater "Six Septembers Later"]]. Writer T Campbell described it in [[AllThereInTheManual the comic's forum]] as a cross between jai alai and tennis.
* ''Webcomic/BoxerHockey'' in the web comic of the same name. The rules are given in the [[http://boxerhockeycomic.tumblr.com/page/189 first strip.]] it would be possible but extremely dangerous to play in real life.
* ''Webcomic/MacHall'': Australian Indoor Rules Quidditch.

* Hitball in ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'' is an altered version of Dodgeball. After all, dodging was never the most important part of the game.
* In ''Webcomic/TheFarSideofUtopia'' there is an amped up version of cross between Tennis and Racquetball called Airball. If the ball hits the ground, you lose the point. Better bring magic or SuperSpeed to have any real chance of playing.

* ''Webcomic/DevilsCandy'': Eggscram is unique for being a sport that uses an unborn egg of the ruling caste as a ball, and the point is to put it through as much trauma and humiliation (for the players) as possible to get the egg to hatch. Whichever team has more points when the egg hatches (or when both teams' players are deceased) wins. Scoring a touchdown earns 4 points, but doing a showboating dance afterwards will earn up to 6 points. Flying devils have a clear advantage over other players, but there's a 10-foot rule to keep the unfairness from turning into a joke.

%%* Dinoball in ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur Train}}''.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'': [[GladiatorGames "The Games"]] in Thundera's [[TheThunderdome Thunderdome:]] A racing ChaseFight between two Cat competitors climbing, swinging, jumping and running up a tree to to ring a bell at its top, [[BloodSport violent]] kicking and punching included. RingOut involves knocking a player off the tree into a pool of water.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002'' opens with Adam and Teela playing a game that resembles volleyball, except that the two players play on multiple levels of hovering cubes suspended in the air.
* The ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode "The Winning Edge" features a sport that seems to be a cross between handball and hockey, full-contact, with teams of multiple players trying to knock a flying puck into a slot on the other team's wall. (The jersey is described as a "hockey outfit" in one episode.) The plot for the episode has Terry investigating the use of performance-enhancing drugs called [[FantasticDrug "slappers"]] by one of the teams.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Equestria has a sport called hoofball that's mentioned in "The Cutie Map", presumably a fantasy counterpart sport to UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball.
** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E19BuckballSeason Buckball Season]]" introduces a recently developed Equestrian sport called "buckball", and goes into pretty big detail on the rules. It involves two teams of three ponies: an earth pony, a pegasus, and a unicorn. The earth ponies try to knock the ball into a bucket held by their team's unicorn "catcher", while the pegasi try to block their opponents from catching the ball. It also mixes in the opening face-off of basketball and full contact with the ball like football/soccer. First team to six points wins the match.
* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'' gives us Dazzleball; the sport is played much like soccer...except the ball randomly transforms, magically switching between a soccer ball, an American football and a flying disc. How you play and use the ball depends on the form it takes (feet only for the soccer ball, hands only for the disc, either for the football).
* ''WesternAnimation/MikeLuAndOg'': Every year on Lady Hewitt-Smythe Day, the Albonquetinians play an extreme game of croquet with elephants serving as a player's mallet and mount.
* ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'' has basherball in Acmetropolis. Players ride flying motorcycles, and use them to capture the ball in the vehicle's intake funnel, then shoot it out a scorpion-like tail gun at a spinning target just below the scoreboard. Colliding with other players (bashing) is allowed.

* ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' is about the traditional, refined sport of young ladies everywhere: ''[[TankGoodness tankery]]''.
* ''Manga/BloodBlockadeBattlefront'' has Prosfair, a game somewhat like chess, but it gets exponentially more difficult and complicated the longer you play. It's also played inside a pocket dimension that compresses time (so you can play for 99 hours straight without inconveniencing your friends waiting outside). It's usually played to a time limit, rather than for an all out victory. Also subject to LoadsAndLoadsOfRules.

* The students of ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' play "assassination badminton" in PE class, which is actually more like volleyball in almost every way. The main differences are that they can only touch the ball with the blade of a knife, and they use a tennis net instead of a badminton or volleyball net.
* ''Franchise/LapisReLights'' has Bumpball. It's like dodgeball except with the addition of magic, 1 type and 1 spell per player.

* ''ComicStrip/DeKiekeboes'' had underwater billiards.
* Issue 24 of ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendsForever'' involves Rarity helping out Gilda with Griffonstone's boffyball team. Boffyball resembles rugby, but played using a small furry creature called a boffypuff as the ball.
* ''ComicBook/TheFuse'', a hard-SF police-procedural comic set on a space station in Earth orbit, has "ziggyball", or "Zero-G Ball", a three-dimensional micro-gravity equivalent of either basketball, American football, or a cross between the two.

* Shuggy from ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' is a futuristic spin on billiards where the biggest difference is that the table has ten different holes, which are actually scattered across the board on hills of different elevations. The rules are fundamentally identical to billiards; two players take turns potting balls, and when one player misses, the other player gets to take their turn. There are some variations in the rules, mostly concerning scoring, and in particular there are two known "special shots" for the game. The first is the "Ten Commandments", which is where a player pots a ball in each of the different holes without missing a single shot. The second is the nigh-impossible "Booglariser", where a player clears a fresh table with a single shot--only two people have ''ever'' pulled this off in a tournament in the history of the sport. There are also two known variant rules for Shuggy; "Southern Rules" Shuggy hails from Texas City, and is played on a longer table with 26 holes instead of the normal ten, with each pocket being both numbered and color-coded, with the highest numbered being the "bull", which sits atop the tallest hill in the center of the table. In Southern Rules, potting the single purple ball into the bull triples a player's points, and a Booglarizer that ''also'' puts the purple ball in the bull results in tripling the originally tripled score, for a whopping '''nine-fold points multiplier'''. In comparison, Luna City Shuggy style is almost blandly simple; each player gets to make one shot and then has to give the table over to the other player, regardless of if they sink any balls or not.

* The ''Fanfic/OversaturatedWorld'' has Criffleball, a combination of dodgeball, tug of war, and rugby played in three dimensions with magic thrown in. The terminology is filled with nonsense words and while the rules themselves are [[https://www.fimfiction.net/group/210047/the-oversaturated-world/thread/238462/oversaturated-qas#comment/5382559 perfectly comprehensible]] viewers both in universe and out are very confused at what is going on.

* ''Film/RealSteel'' is based on the world of professional (and semi-pro) robot boxing (that is, boxing between robots, not against them).

* In the film ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', the high school students play a variant of Arena Football, played on a hardwood court with coed teams. The padding and helmets are much lighter (allowing for more gymnastics), and there are no goalposts, suggesting that points are achieved solely by touchdowns.
* ''Film/{{Rollerball}}'', both the 1975 original and the 2002 remake, involve a future sport roughly based on roller derby, but with motorcycles added to the track, and a steel ball introduced into the rink via an air cannon. It was meant to sate the public's taste for violence and gore, to keep the masses manageable. Before the original film's shooting wrapped, the stuntmen played a real game of Rollerball, and some sports promoters were briefly interested in making the sport into a real-life league.
* In Disney's ''Film/{{Descendants}}'', the offspring of classic Disney characters engage in a field sport called Tourney, which is played with lacrosse sticks and nets, kite shields, and air-cannons that fire projectiles through a designated "kill zone".

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
** Quidditch is played on {{Flying Broomstick}}s with four different balls. Each team has three Chasers, who try to put a ball called the Quaffle through one of three hoops to score ten points (while a Keeper tries to stop them), and the game continues until one team's Seeker catches the GoldenSnitch, scoring 150 points and ending the game. All the while the players evade the other two balls called Bludgers, which are like animated cannonballs, with the help of their team's Beaters, who are armed with clubs to protect their teammates and redirect the balls at the other team. Whichever side has the most points wins, although based on the rules we're given and the games we see, the team that catches the Snitch wins basically every time[[note]]One notable exception; during the World Cup in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', the game goes on so long that Krum catches the snitch even though his team is definitely 150 points down. One can only wonder what kind of dream team the leprechauns set up if they could win by Quaffle points alone[[/note]].
*** A {{defictionalized}} version [[http://www.iqaquidditch.com/ has cropped up,]] although the rules are modified in a few ways, even beyond the obvious limitations of not having flying broomsticks. Bludgers are replaced with dodgeballs, players who are hit must tag their own teams goal posts before returning to play, and the game runs for a set time with the snitch being worth far fewer points. Plus a bunch of specifics about fouls, penalties and such are added.
** ''Literature/QuidditchThroughTheAges'' is a SpinOff book that expands upon the version of Quidditch seen in the books a great deal, trying to cover some of the common complaints about the game. It also introduces other sports, both extant and extinct.
*** The Scots developed Creaothceann, which involved flying a broomstick around trying to catch rocks that had been levitated into the air in a cauldron tied to one's head. It was banned in 1762 because it was so dangerous, though the book suggests that it inspired the Bludgers in Quidditch.
*** The United States isn't big into Quidditch, as it's been supplanted by a variant called Quodpot. In this game, the goal is to get the ball into a cauldron before the ball, which is magically MadeOfExplodium, explodes. Reportedly invented by accident after a wizard's wand came into contact with his Quaffle during shipping, causing it to blow up in his face when he and some friends went to play catch. (This is pretty clearly a send-up of UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball versus [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball football/soccer,]] not to mention the idea that Americans like StuffBlowingUp.)

* Scavage and Counterchance in the ''Literature/LiadenUniverse''. Bowli ball might also apply, but it's more like a (literal) HappyFunBall.

* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
** The many books detail an [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Sports array]] of sports to rival the number in the real world, including astrobatics, Boga Minawk, greenputt, Huttball, low-g gymnastics, nerf-throwing,[[note]]Clearly a joke. Nerf are the size of (and rather resemble) terrestrial water buffalo...now, whether it's a joke in- ''and'' out- of universe is a question.[[/note]] sandsurfing, and water hockey. Most aren't given much focus.
** During ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'', Tash Arranda looks back on playing speed globe with her friends on Alderaan. She still has the ball and it still works -- when activated it speeds away from people - but she doesn't have a team anymore.
* Private Literature/McAuslan once found himself forced to participate in The Pillow Fight, which is like a regular pillow fight but over a tank of hot soapy water. [=McAuslan=] was outraged at the insult to his personal hygiene and challenged the order all the way up to a military tribunal. After winning his case, he went and joined The Pillow Fight.
* ''Literature/TroyRising'' has null-grav ball, essentially zero-G basketball. The first group to play had a 10% injury rate that required a doctor's input. There's also jungleball, a variant of null-ball. Jungleball takes null-ball's many, many regulations down to just eight rules. The first of which is [[BloodSport "no weapons".]]

* Also from Creator/PiersAnthony, the ''Literature/ApprenticeAdept'' novels feature a mind-boggling variety of games in Proton's Tourney events, from the Dust Slide (essentially a waterslide-race, but with dry near-frictionless particles instead of water), to an android-assisted variant of American football, to NoodleIncident contests like tug-of-war using a ''live python'' as the rope. Phaze has a few unique competitions of its own, like the combination obstacle course and ShapeshifterShowdown at the Unolympics.
* The ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' series includes several references to Brockian Ultra-Cricket, "a curious game which involves suddenly hitting people for no readily apparent reason and then running away". That said the game is much closer to {{Calvinball}} territory, as the rules we are given include helpful bits like "The winning team shall be the first team that wins". Only one complete list of the rules has ever been compiled, and it immediately collapsed into a black hole.
* Incuel from ''Literature/ToughMagic'' is a sport which crosses magic dueling and martial arts. Not quite as dangerous as it sounds, as special suits, invarmas, protect the fighters from any serious harm.
* Mentioned in passing in ''[[Literature/{{Animorphs}} The Andalite Chronicles.]]'' Elfangor says the captain's quarters on an Andalite dome ship are so big "he can practically play driftball in there."[[note]]As opposed to the quarters allotted an ''aristh'' ([[FantasticRankSystem akin to a midshipman]]) like Elfangor, which are so small he has to back out into the corridor to turn around.[[/note]]
* Creator/StevePerry's ''Literature/MatadorSeries'' has the Musashi Flex, a galaxy-wide professional street-fighting circuit. The rules of a fight (e.g. bare hands only versus weapons, fight to wound versus fight to the death) are agreed on by the participants before they start, and fighting an opponent ten or more ranks up or down the ranking ladder from you doesn't count towards your own ranking. The series' main FantasticFightingStyle, sumito, was developed by an aging Flex fighter in the chronologically earliest novel ''The Musashi Flex'', and in the series' present a number of the Matadors are former Flex fighters.
* In ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'', there are a couple of games Heraldic trainees play. In the ''Literature/CollegiumChronicles'' era there is Kirball, a variant of 'capture the flag'; it has apparently fallen out of fashion by the 'modern' Valdemar period, as ''Hurley'', which is something like polo, had invented by then.
* ''Literature/AllForTheGame'' is primarily a SportsStory about Exy, which is like a combination of lacrosse and hockey.

* In Malcolm Jameson's story "Bullard Reflects", a spaceship crew plays Dazzle Dart, where the players wear mirrors and try to reflect a beam of light into a goal.
* ''The Galaxy Game'' by Karen Lord heavily features Wallrunning, which is competitive climbing with variable gravity. It turns out [[spoiler: the skills required to be a Wallrunning team (and specifically to be the nexus of a Wallrunning team, telepathically keeping everyone else in position) are very similar to the skills required to run the long-abandoned PortalNetwork, and Wallrunning was originally a training exercise.]]
* ''[[Literature/LockIn Head On]]'' gives us Hilketa ("murder" in Basque), a fairly violent team sport played using "threeps" (artificial [[RemoteBody remove bodies]]), primarily by [[AndIMustScream Hadens.]] It's the fastest-growing spectator sport in the country and, soon, the world. Players score by beheading a designated player (called a "goat" for some reason) on the opposing team and carrying or throwing the head back to their goal (the rules are described in detail [[https://www.tor.com/2018/04/24/how-to-play-hilketa-john-scalzi/ here]]). NAHL (North American Hilketa League) rules specify that all professional games must be played with the feedback pain settings set to no less than 5% of normal. The rules allow four types of "threeps" to be used: [[MasterOfNone General,]] [[MightyGlacier Tank,]] [[FragileSpeedster Scout,]] and [[GlassCannon Warrior.]] There are designated weapons at certain locations, which range from swords to grenades, although all damage is simulated in order to avoid damaging the very expensive "threeps". The novel starts with the first ever player death during a game of Hilketa, which is investigated by the protagonist of the previous novel (''Lock In'').
* In ''Literature/RedRising'', characters make reference to sports such as [[GladiatorGames Faux War,]] Grav Cross (which from the name sounds like zero-gravity lacrosse), Rip Racing ([[RecycledInSpace Nascar in Space]]), and Blood Chess.

* ''Franchise/BattlestarGalactica'' has Triad and Pyramid. In [[Series/BattlestarGalactica1978 the original series]] Triad was a hybrid of basketball and American football (essentially a full-contact court-style ball game with the objective being to put a hand-sized ball through a goal) while Pyramid was a poker-like card game. [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 The remake]] switched the names.
* A 2nd series episode of ''Series/LookAroundYou'' had a feature on gonnis (golf tennis).
* An episode of the Finnish sketch show ''Kummeli'' had a sketch on Tamping, a fictional sport where the participant must travel the world and cover every square inch of the world with his own clown-shoe footprints - that is, to step on absolutely '''everything''' in the world. The sketch also served as a vehicle for puns related to feminine hygiene products: The sketch mentions one man who has tamped the entire world three times: Kenji Nakami, also known as the '''Tampon''', and one square acre of tampable territory is known as a '''Tampax'''.
* Zero Gee Football, as followed by Dave Lister of ''Series/RedDwarf''. Appears to be a form of grid-iron football played in a closed dome ( Jim Bexley Speed apparently plays "roof attack" and appears on a poster over Lister's bunk looking something like the San Diego Chargers uniform )
* Characters on ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'' are occasionally seen playing ''kosho'', a bizarre combat sport involving contestants wrestling on trampolines and trying to throw or push each other into a swimming pool while wearing pseudo-Japanese costumes.
* In ''Series/TheKing2Hearts'' there's World Officer Championship, which is basically WarGaming but with real people.
* The ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S7E8SpaceRace Space Race]]" had Samantha Carter take part in, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a race in space]] hosted by the planet Hebridan. First prize was a lucrative shipping contract which an alien SG-1 had befriended in an earlier episode wanted. [[spoiler:The race also suffered sabotage by a [[FantasticRacism human-supremacist]] executive at the MegaCorp that seems to own practically every industry on Hebridan.]]
* An episode of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' involves Baskiceball, a combination of basketball and ice hockey created by Marshall Eriksen and his brothers. The rules weren't clearly defined, but it appears to basically be basketball played on ice with hockey equipment, but Marshall actually acknowledges that mostly they just "wail on each other".

* ''Series/{{Sliders}}'': On one world, where intelligence is revered above all (they walk past a guy dressed like a punk rocker blasting classical music out of his boombox and see a rap video about how cool it is to hang out at the library), the most popular game is a combination of handball and science trivia, meaning their world's mathletes must also be physically fit, as well as very smart. This world's Quinn is an MVP of this sport, as indicated when the protagonists see a poster of him advertising sneakers.

* ''VisualNovel/AoNoKanataFourRhythm'': Thanks to anti-gravity [=Grav-shoes=], the game of Flying Circus becomes popular. Players score points by hitting their opponent's back or tagging floating buoys at the points of a diamond, similar to running the bases in baseball.

** Quidditch is played on {{Flying Broomstick}}s with four different balls. Each team has three Chasers, who try to put a ball called the Quaffle through one of three hoops to score ten points (while a Keeper tries to stop them), and the game continues until one team's Seeker catches the GoldenSnitch, scoring 150 points and ending the game. All the while the players evade the other two balls called Bludgers, which are like animated cannonballs, with the help of their teams Beaters, who are armed with clubs to protect their teammates and redirect the balls at the other team. Whichever side has the most points wins, although based on the rules we're given and the games we see, the team that catches the Snitch wins basically every time[[note]]One notable exception; during the World Cup in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', the game goes on so long that Krum catches the snitch even though his team is definitely 150 points down. One can only wonder what kind of dream team the leprechauns set up if they could win by quaffle points alone[[/note]].
*** A {{defictionalized}} version [[http://www.iqaquidditch.com/ has cropped up]], although the rules are modified in a few ways, even beyond the obvious limitations of not having flying broomsticks. Bludgers are replaced with dodgeballs, players who are hit must tag their own teams goal posts before returning to play, and the game runs for a set time with the snitch being worth far fewer points. Plus a bunch of specifics about fouls, penalties and such are added.
** ''Literature/QuidditchThroughTheAges'' is a SpinOff book that expands upon the version of Quidditch seen in the books a great deal, trying to cover some of the common complains about the game. It also introduces other sports, both extant and extinct.

*** The United States isn't big into Quidditch, as it's been supplanted by a variant called Quodpot. In this game the goal is to get the ball into a cauldron before the ball, which is magically MadeOfExplodium, explodes. Reportedly invented by accident after a wizard's wand came into contact with his Quaffle during shipping, causing it to blow up in his face when he and some friends went to play catch. (This is pretty clearly a send-up of UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball versus [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball football/soccer]], not to mention the idea that Americans like StuffBlowingUp.)

** The Witches, particularly Nanny Ogg, play a card game called "Cripple Mr Onion" which appears to be something between poker and whist

** The many books detail an [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Sports array]] of sports to rival the number in the real world, including astrobatics, Boga Minawk, greenputt, Huttball, Low-g gymnastics, nerf-throwing,[[note]]Clearly a joke. Nerf are the size of (and rather resemble) terrestrial water buffalo... Now, whether it's a joke in- or out- of universe is a question.[[/note]] sandsurfing, and water hockey. Most aren't given much focus.
** During ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'' Tash Arranda looks back on playing speed globe with her friends on Alderaan. She still has the ball and it still works -- when activated it speeds away from people - but she doesn't have a team anymore.

* ''Literature/TroyRising'' has null-grav ball, essentially zero-G basketball. The first group to play had a 10% injury rate that required a doctor's input. There's also jungleball, a variant of null-ball. Jungleball takes null-ball's many, many regulations down to just eight rules. The first of which is "[[BloodSport no weapons]]".

** Interestingly, the rare use of a "mundane" (magic-free) play can be a very effective strategy, not only as a surprise tactic, but also causing the opposition to waste counterspells on a magical offense that never materializes.

* The ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' series includes several references to Brockian Ultra-Cricket, "a curious game which involves suddenly hitting people for no readily apparent reason and then running away." That said the game is much closer to {{Calvinball}} territory, as the rules we are given include helpful bits like "The winning team shall be the first team that wins." Only one complete list of the rules has ever been compiled, and it immediately collapsed into a black hole.

* Mentioned in passing in ''[[Literature/{{Animorphs}} The Andalite Chronicles]]''. Elfangor says the captain's quarters on an Andalite dome ship are so big "he can practically play driftball in there."[[note]]As opposed to the quarters allotted an ''aristh'' ([[FantasticRankSystem akin to a midshipman]]) like Elfangor, which are so small he has to back out into the corridor to turn around.[[/note]]

* In ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'', there are a couple of games Heraldic trainees play. In the ''Literature/CollegiumChronicles'' era there is Kirball, a variant of 'capture the flag'; it has apparently fallen out of fashion by the 'modern' Valdemar period, as ''Hurley'', which is something like polo, invented then.

* ''[[Literature/LockIn Head On]]'' gives us Hilketa ("murder" in Basque), a fairly violent team sport played using "threeps" (artificial [[RemoteBody remove bodies]]), primarily by [[AndIMustScream Hadens]]. It's the fastest-growing spectator sport in the country and, soon, the world. Players score by beheading a designated player (called a "goat" for some reason) on the opposing team and carrying or throwing the head back to their goal (the rules are described in detail [[https://www.tor.com/2018/04/24/how-to-play-hilketa-john-scalzi/ here]]). NAHL (North American Hilketa League) rules specify that all professional games must be played with the feedback pain settings set to no less than 5% of normal. The rules allow four types of "threeps" to be used: [[MasterOfNone General]], [[MightyGlacier Tank]], [[FragileSpeedster Scout]], and [[GlassCannon Warrior]]. There are designated weapons at certain locations, which range from swords to grenades, although all damage is simulated in order to avoid damaging the very expensive "threeps". The novel starts with the first ever player death during a game of Hilketa, which is investigated by the protagonist of the previous novel (''Lock In'').
* In ''Literature/RedRising'', characters make reference to sports such as [[GladiatorGames Faux War]], Grav Cross (which from the name sounds like zero-gravity lacrosse), Rip Racing ([[RecycledInSpace Nascar in Space]]), and Blood Chess.

** Quiddich is played on {{Flying Broomstick}}s with four different balls. Each team has three Chasers, who try to put a ball called the Quaffle through one of three hoops to score ten points (while a Keeper tries to stop them), and the game continues until one team's Seeker catches the GoldenSnitch, scoring 150 points and ending the game. All the while the players evade the other two balls called Bludgers, which are like animated cannonballs, with the help of their teams Beaters, who are armed with clubs to protect their teammates and redirect the balls at the other team. Whichever side has the most points wins, although based on the rules we're given and the games we see, the team that catches the Snitch wins basically every time[[note]]One notable exception; during the World Cup in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', the game goes on so long that Krum catches the snitch even though his team is definitely 150 points down. One can only wonder what kind of dream team the leprechauns set up if they could win by quaffle points alone[[/note]].

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* Creator/GeorgeCarlin came up with a bunch, such as Australian Dick Wrestling and Rollerfucking.
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* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''. One word: Drownball. Fighter's historic victory was due to him technically losing (his brain consumes much less oxygen, so he didn't drown as fast as the other players) but as the only living player he had to be declared the winner.

* Fallguard in ''WebComic/{{Dreamkeepers}}''.

* Tumblr user ''fidefortitude'', tired of all the many sport events, imagined them all stuck in one event: the fuckening. All sports are played at the same time on one field. All players must abide the rules of their own game, except if two players from different games hold hands: then they swap rules as long as they do.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has Blernsball. It appears breifly in the first season, and it's Baseball plus Calvinball as Fry has no idea what the rules are and nothing is explained. When it shows up again in the Third season in an episode focused around Leela becoming a professional player, it's basically just baseball with the ball on a stretchy tether, although a few of the other changes that were made to "Jazz it up" made the transition as well.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has brought us "Pro-Bending". Teams composed of one [[MakingASplash water-bender]], one [[PlayingWithFire fire-bender]] and one [[DishingOutDirt earth-bender]] compete against each other, trying to gain the most territory or knock out their opponents before time runs out. {{Defictionalized}} [[http://youtu.be/tzsAS-IBN30 here when the elements are replaced with appropriately colored bean bags.]]
* Dinoball in ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur Train}}''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots'' has Rescue Ball, a ball-and-net game with no offensive or defensive [[ThereAreNoRules restrictions]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'': "[[GladiatorGames The Games]]" in Thundera's [[TheThunderdome Thunderdome]]: A racing ChaseFight between two Cat competitors climbing, swinging, jumping and running up a tree to to ring a bell at its top, [[BloodSport violent]] kicking and punching included. RingOut involves knocking a player off the tree into a pool of water.

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** The page image is of the title character playing Quidditch, a sport played on {{Flying Broomstick}}s with four different balls. Each team has three players who try to put a ball called the Quaffle through one of three hoops to score ten points (while a Keeper tries to stop them), and the game continues until one team's Seeker catches the GoldenSnitch, scoring 150 points and ending the game. All the while the players evade the other two balls called Bludgers, which are like animated cannonballs, with the help of their teams Beaters, who are armed with clubs to protect their teammates and redirect the balls at the other team. Whichever side has the most points wins, although based on the rules we're given and the games we see, the team that catches the Snitch wins basically every time[[note]]One notable exception; during the world cup in book 4, the game goes on so long that Krum catches the snitch even though his team is definitely 150 points down. One can only wonder what kind of dream team the leprechauns set up if they could win by quaffle points alone[[/note]].

* ''Manga/{{Gunnm}}'' (AKA, ''Battle Angel Alita'') has Motorball, a deadly high-speed sport where racers fight to carry a heavy motorized ball across the finish line. Between racers' attacks, track hazards, and the ball trying to wriggle free, the casualties come fast and bloody in that particular arc.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has Blernsball. It appears breifly in the first season, and it's basically just Baseball plus Calvinball as Fry has no idea what the rules are. When it shows up again in the Third season in an episode focused around Leela becoming a professional player, it's basically just baseball with the ball on a stretchy tether, although a number of changes are made to "Jazz it up" compared to normal baseball.

The sport equivalent to the FakeBand: A "real" sport invented for the work itself which is played in the 'verse of the work. Different from {{Calvinball}} in that the sport actually has consistent rules that could be followed, at least in theory, although for obvious reasons there will likely be some gaps in our knowledge of the game rules. Can become {{defictionalized}} if someone manages to create feasible real-life rules for the game, although how difficult this is to do can vary pretty wildly. Something like a fake card game is pretty easy, while a sport requiring advanced technology, magic, or superhuman athleticism just to play will obviously be impossible to fully recreate. That said, you'll be amazed how creative fans can be.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'': Blitzball, best described as underwater handball with kicks.

* ''Series/APBio'': Stephanie, Mary, and Michelle have a game they play called pizza slap where they take pizza slices and hit each other in the face with the cheese side.

** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' has 3-D chess. What? Chess is a mind sport! The show's producers have never actually published official rules for this version of chess, but some fan clubs have offered suggestions, as have companies like the Franklin Mint, who have sold replicas of the sets.

* An episode of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' involves Baskiceball, a combination of basketball and ice hockey created by Marshall Eriksen and his brothers. The rules weren't clearly defined, but supposedly it involves shooting a basketball while skating on an ice rink.

* ''TabletopGame/BloodBowl'' is a tabletop game about the sport of the same name, a BloodSport bastard of rugby and American football by way of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' with ''very'' liberal rules for acceptable levels of violence on the pitch.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' has Grifball. Originally a joke line from Sarge ("This is the best game since Grifball!" said while trying to snipe Grif), the series creator eventually considered what exactly Grifball would entail. The rules can be found in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmOzAE-CbLY this PSA]], but for those who don't want to watch a video, here's the basics; It's a ball-in-the-goal game, except the "Ball" is actually a bomb, and the player carrying it becomes Grif (their armor turns orange). So if you take out the carrier, Grif blows up, and if you score a goal, the bomb goes off! So, "Sarge wins either way."

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has Blernsball. There are actually two episodes centered around it, and it changes almost completely between viewings. The first time, Fry looks like an idiot for using baseball terminology, but the second, it's almost identical to baseball.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has brought us "Pro-Bending". Teams composed of one [[MakingASplash water-bender]], one [[PlayingWithFire fire-bender]] and one [[DishingOutDirt earth-bender]] compete against each other, trying to gain the most territory or knock out as many opponents as possible before time runs out. {{Defictionalized}} [[http://youtu.be/tzsAS-IBN30 here when the elements are replaced with appropriately colored bean bags.]]

The sport equivalent to the FakeBand: A "real" sport invented for the work itself which is played in the 'verse of the work. Different from {{Calvinball}} in that the sport actually has consistent rules that could be followed, at least in theory. Can become {{defictionalized}} if someone manages to create feasible real-life rules for the game, although how difficult this is to do can vary pretty wildly. Something like a fake card game is pretty easy, while a sport requiring advanced technology, magic, or superhuman athleticism just to play will obviously be impossible to fully recreate. That said, you'll be amazed how creative fans can be.