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* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' has Destroy Stadium, a setting visited twice in the game. What happens there includes killing bad guys by deflecting a pitch, battles in the vast outfield, and PlayingTennisWithTheBoss via a man-launching batting cage.

** ''VideoGame/MarioKartDoubleDash'': In addition to having the usual Mario and Luigi Circuits, as well as Waluigi Stadium which has a more diverse take on a monster truck circuit than Wario Stadium from ''Mario Kart 64'', the game also has Wario Colosseum as part of the Special Cup. It's a long, intricate mechanical circuit whose road combines parts made of asphalt with chainlinks, and features a huge Globe of Death in its center.

** ''VideoGame/MarioKartWii'': This became the first game in the series to feature an athletic ''battle'' course, namely Funky Stadium. It is based on skateboard parks, and its primary focus besides the wide space it covers is the various ramps and half-pipes that can be used to perform tricks and gain extra speed. Within racing courses, the game not only has its own Luigi and Mario Circuits, but also brings back the Mario Circuits from ''Mario Kart 64'', ''Double Dash!!'' and the third from ''Super'' (there's also a Daisy Circuit, but it's themed around PortTown instead).

** ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'': Only three traditional circuits are featured in the game: Mario Kart Stadium, the usual new Mario Circuit and the one from ''Super Circuit''; DS Wario Stadium makes a return as well. However, they stand out for taking advantage of the game's gravity mechanic, with the new Mario Circuit taking it to the extreme by tracing its layout in the style of a Moebius strip (making it so the drivers go through ''both'' vertical sides of the road); since the game's Battle Mode reuses race courses instead of having dedicated battle arenas, the new Mario Circuit is also used in that mode. The game's DownloadableContent adds Excitebike Arena, a giant motorcycle obstacle course based on, well, ''VideoGame/{{Excitebike}}''. For the UpdatedRerelease ''Mario Kart 8 Deluxe'', proper Battle Mode stages are added, one of them being the deathmatch-inspired Battle Stadium; and by way of the Booster Course Pass DLC, 3DS Toad Circuit, SNES Mario Circuit 3, GCN Waluigi Stadium and DS Mario Circuit are added as well.
** ''VideoGame/MarioKartTour'': A bevy of athletic tracks from past ''Mario Kart'' games are brought back in the game, including special remixes for the first SNES Mario Circuit, though no brand-new circuit based on this trope has been added (the closest things being Singapore Speedway and Los Angeles Laps, which feature respectively a soccer stadium based on the real-life Float @ Marina Bay Stadium and the Dodgers' baseball stadium, but they're barely impactful for gameplay).

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** ''VideoGame/MarioKartTour'': A bewy of athletic tracks from past ''Mario Kart'' games are brought back in the game, including special remixes for the first SNES Mario Circuit, though no brand-new circuit based on this trope has been added (the closest thing being Singapore Speedway, which features a soccer stadium based on the real-life Float @ Marina Bay Stadium, but it's barely impactful for gameplay).

* ''Franchise/{{Asterix}}'' for the SNES has a stage during a Rugby match, where the player is meant to reach the end of the level. While holding a ball. While avoiding Roman rugby players. Playing Rugby.

** ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'': Only three traditional circuits are featured in the game: Mario Kart Stadium, the usual new Mario Circuit and the one from ''Super Circuit''. However, they stand out for taking advantage of the game's gravity mechanic, with the new Mario Circuit taking it to the extreme by tracing its layout in the style of a Moebius strip (making it so the drivers go through ''both'' vertical sides of the road); since the game's Battle Mode reuses race courses instead of having dedicated battle arenas, the new Mario Circuit is also used in that mode. The game's DownloadableContent adds Excitebike Arena, a giant motorcycle obstacle course based on, well, ''VideoGame/{{Excitebike}}''. For the UpdatedRerelease ''Mario Kart 8 Deluxe'', proper Battle Mode stages are added, one of them being the deathmatch-inspired Battle Stadium; and by way of the Booster Course Pass DLC, 3DS Toad Circuit, SNES Mario Circuit 3, DS Wario Stadium, GCN Waluigi Stadium and DS Mario Circuit are added as well.

* ''VideoGame/{{Asterix}}'' for the SNES has a stage during a Rugby match, where the player is meant to reach the end of the level. While holding a ball. While avoiding Roman rugby players. Playing Rugby.

* Due to the sports theme of the bosses (and half the enemies), every stage in ''VideoGame/BatBoy'' mixes this trope with various other video game levels, e.g. the Molten Cave is a LethalLavaLand with football players charging and kicking balls at you. Naturally the winter sport theme is integrated a bit more elegantly into SlippySlideyIceWorld (also featuring a StealthPun in the flying manta enemies — ice skates).

* ''[[VideoGame/GanbareGoemon Ganbare Goemon 4]]'''s main villain is a galactic sportsmaster who has traveled all over the known cosmos mastering all the sports he's came across. Naturally, all the enemies and most stages, particularly the castles, have a distinctive athletic motif to them. For example, the Desert planet Castle is a giant stadium where you travel via giant soccer balls headed by {{HumongousMecha}}s, then you get into a labyrinth where you must get all the baseball bases in the correct order to unlock the next stage where you run away from a giant robot in a hurdling track.

* Goby Arena in ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' is a stadium for the [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Inklings' version of basketball]]. The court and its surrounding areas get repurposed for ink battling, which is where ''Splatoon 2'' is concerned.

** ''VideoGame/MarioKartDoubleDash'': In addition to having the usual Mario and Luigi Circuits, as well as Waluigi Stadium which has a more diverse take on a monster truck circuit than Wario Stadium from ''Mario Kart 64'', the game also has Wario Colosseum as part of the Special Cup. It's a long, intricate mechanical circuit whose road combines made of asphalt with chainlinks, and features a huge Globe of Death in its center.

* The ''[[VideoGame/TaleSpinCapcom Disney's TaleSpin]]'' game for {{UsefulNotes/NES}} has a level set in a baseball stadium.

** ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'': Only three traditional circuits are featured in the game: Mario Kart Stadium, the usual new Mario Circuit and the one from ''Super Circuit''. However, they stand out for taking advantage of the game's gravity mechanic, with the new Mario Circuit taking it to the extreme by tracing its layout in the style of a Moebius strip (making it so the drivers go through ''both'' vertical sides of the road); since the game's Battle Mode reuses race courses instead of having dedicated battle arenas, the new Mario Circuit is also used in that mode. For the UpdatedRerelease ''Mario Kart 8 Deluxe'', proper Battle Mode stages are added, one of them being the deathmatch-inspired Battle Stadium; and by way of the Booster Course Pass DLC, 3DS Toad Circuit, SNES Mario Circuit 3 and DS Mario Circuit are added as well.

** ''VideoGame/MarioKart64'': This is the first game in its series to feature a race course inspired by extreme sports, in this case Wario Stadium. It's a muddy, maze-like monster truck circuit that takes a long time to traverse (usually 5 minutes in lower speed tiers).

* Goby Arena in ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon 2}}'' is a stadium for the [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Inklings' version of basketball]]. The court and its surrounding areas get repurposed for ink battling, which is where ''Splatoon 2'' is concerned.