Happily, the following are relatively unknown sports to all but those who practice them.
Below are the five weirdest sports ever played.
Every year the toe wrestling world championships are held in Welton, England.
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There are classifications for men, women, and youths.
This pub hosted then hosted the annual world championships from 1994 until 2021.
In 1997 shovel racing was even featured in the winter X games.
However, due to safety concerns, it did not make any more appearances.
Often, competitors will wax the underside of their shovels to maximize their speed.
At top speed, shovel racing competitors can reach upwards of 70 miles an hour.
An annual wife-carrying championship is held in Finland, where this weird sport originated.
Wife-carrying also requires the competitors to tackle two dry obstacles and one wet obstacle.
It is a simple case of the fastest time wins.
Prizes are also awarded for costumes and the entertainment factor.
Interestingly, the prize for the best wife-carrying team is the wifes body weight in beer.
Ironers document and share their adventures with others for the sheer fun of it.
He combined the two by climbing a mountain with his ironing board in tow.
The game of Fireball soccer is exactly as many would expect.
A coconut is soaked in kerosene and then set alight.
The game then starts with standard soccer rules.
Whoever scores the most goals wins.
Either way, fireball remains on of the weirdest sports ever conceived.
Below are six obscure sports to leave you confused and amazed.
Underwater hockey is played in over thirty countries and boasts a bi-annual world championship and also a European championship.
Sepak Takraw originated in Asia, and the name is an amalgamation of Malay and Thai words.
The game is played between teams of 2, 3, or 4 players.
Competitors can use any body part except their arms or hands to touch the ball.
As with many obscure sports, there is a niche interest in the game.
However, it is growing as more people learn about it.
Currently, there are three major competitions held annually.
Contestants take turns in pulling the strangest or weirdest-looking face they can.
The winner is the person who makes the most weirdly obscure face possible.
Interestingly, the people who see the most success in gurning are those who are missing teeth.
Traditionally, gurning is found in rural towns around Britain.
For extra obscurity, a contestant will often have to put their head between a horse collar when competing.
As with many obscure sports, the caber toss originated from humble beginnings.
Only competitors pull in one-on-one competition using their necks.
Winners are awarded Goanna Pulling Championship Belts along with cash prizes.
5 Funny sports guaranteed to make you smile
Some funny sports just make you giggle.
Sure, they may be fiercely contested, but there is an increased entertainment factor with them.
Below are five funny sports that will amuse even the most sport-averse character.
The contest dates back to around 1890 in Florida.
However, it is believed that the practice existed in South Africa long before this.
Racing birds can reach speeds of 43 miles an hour.
The game is contested by two teams of two players.
Players must control the ball using their bike or their head.
Hands can only be used when defending the goal.
This allows the sole attacker on each five-man team to spike the ball down to their opponents.
The game incorporates elements of football and volleyball with a healthy dose of acrobatics.
Bossaball also comes with its own rule set that further defines this as one of the worlds funny sports.
Beyond the first two touches, there are no further limits imposed.
Teams compete in both a Bossaball World Cup and a European Championship.
Care should be taken to see to it the drop height is uniform across the competitors.
The history of funny sports such as oil wrestling date back almost five thousand years.
Competitors are separated into two divisions, Pehlivan (wrestlers) and Baspehlivan (master wrestlers).
Weird Professional sports are both abstract yet somehow commercialized enough to be profitable.
Below are six weird professional sports that will astound you.
Tug of war is a simple premise.
Teams have a total weight limit that is shared amongst eight team members.
Two men face off against each other in a contest to push the competitors hand to the table.
There are a variety of moves and techniques that can be used for achieve victory.
The World Arm Wrestling Federation has members from over eighty different countries.
However, Croquet is also one of the weird professional sports that is played across the globe.
Association croquet is slightly different from the standard garden version of the sport.
Two players compete using four different colored balls.
The aim is to pass all balls through the croquet hoops.
There are three hoops at either end of the pitch and a stake in the center.
There are two core short types.
The Croquet shot, where one ball is hit into another to get to advance it.
Performing the croquet allows the player to take an additional shot.
Teams line up on either side of a pitch.
One player from each side then takes turns raiding the opposite team.
The goal is to tag as many people as they can before they are tackled.
Two competitors stand face-to-face, much like in a traditional arm-wrestling contest.
Competitors then take turns slapping each other in the face as hard as they can.
There is no denying the level of skill involved in dressage.
It is more the concept and the spectator experience that ups the weirdness factor.
Dressage is often described as horse dancing.
However, it is much more complicated and complex than that.
However, that doesnt stop it from belonging to the list of weird professional sports.
Below are five random sports that shouldnt work but somehow do.
The random sport that is chess boxing sees contestants compete over 11 rounds of boxing and chess.
Three minutes of boxing is followed by one minute of chess.
There are multiple ways to win, including either by knockout in the ring or checkmate on the board.
The winner is the person who can withstand the furrowing of the ferrets for the longest.
The current record for ferret legging stands at 5 hours and 30 minutes.
Cheese rolling is an annual event in the UK that has established quite a following.
The entire purpose of the race is to catch the cheese.
The first person to do so was allowed to keep the cheese as a prize.
Even as far as random sports go, winning a piece of cheese surely takes the biscuit.
There are several dog surfing competitions and even a dog surfing world championship.
The game is similar to ice hockey.
The goals are set proud from either end, allowing players to move behind the net.
Skating position ice hockey sticks are used to hit a tennis ball.
Unicycler hockey is a no-contact sport often played by mixed-gender teams.
Below are five crazy sports perfect for the foolhardy.
Quidditch
Quidditch is a crazy sport created in a work of fiction.
A full-contact sport, Australian rules football is not for the mild-mannered.
Matches run for four twenty-minute quarters, and the scoring system is just as crazy as the sport.
Each end has four goalposts.
Goals are worth six points, counted when the ball passes between the center posts.
Typically, gold finches are used.
Two competitors stand face-to-face, holding each other by the collar.
They then proceed to kick each other on the shin.
Victory comes when one combatant either falls to the floor or cries out sufficient.
Interestingly, in 2021 a 7-year-old set a limbo skating record, speeding under 20 cars in 13.74 seconds.
Why do some of these unusual sports even qualify as sports?
Granted, some unusual sports take things more seriously than others.
Several, in fact, know they are unusual sports and rely on their novelty to survive.
They dont take themselves too seriously, even when in competition mode.
