Top 10 Strangest Sports in The World

For this list, we're looking at sports that may look or sound baffling, but actually require skills and effort like mainstream or more well-known sports.

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[ShinySwalot]

Extreme Ironing sounds like a sport a mother thinks of to motivate their children to do their tasks

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[Jack_Rakan]

The most unusual sport I can think of? Handegg: nobody knows the exact rules for it, not the watchers, not the players and not even the referees, since the game is stopped every 10 seconds for the refs to debate something or another. And some people call it "football" for some stupid reason, when the game has nothing to do with either the feet, or is it played with an actual ball.

[Rockspencer]

HOW THE HELL ISN'T THE IRONING ONE THE TOP ONE?!? Frigging chess boxing actually sounds cool!!

[Pienimusta]

Finland: Wife carrying, cellphone throwing, rubber boot throwing....

[ACBlackJck]

Actually saw a Quidditch match outside a university in in Swansea, Wales. It was pretty weird.

[darwitses]

I'm Irish and hurling is completely mainstream (Hurling is Irish). I play it almost everyday, matches are shown on tv every Sunday during the season and one of the biggest stadiums in Europe was built for hurling and Gaelic Football. There's a club for it in every town and I broke my ankle while playing a game.

[AaronCLS]

Hurling is basically an older version of lacrosse/football, Curling now that's pretty weird

[WatchMojo]

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[fionnfenlon]

I'm from Ireland and hurling isn't weird

[maddestmike]

Now do the 10 weirdest motorsports! I've seen quite a few.

[SceneArtisan]

IT'S NOT

It's AL-U-MIN-I-UM. Have a nice day.

[emmetdrums]

Hurling is a very skilful sport And a lot of people play it here in Ireland .'it's not weird.

[brandontomich]

I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese

[arthuranderson]

I used to sled on shovels when it was icy out. Because I was stupid lol. But wow, I didn't know it was a sport. And huh... Extreme Ironing? Oil Wrestling? Weird...

[johnmaar]

jugger isnt really that weird but extremely awesome

[Grizzly_Lab]

Whoa, ok: I already knew about quidditch, even extreme ironing, and yes, the cheese rolling either...
... but for the rest, I'm pretty astonished o.O :D

[backup]

"Sports that involve skill"

"Quidditch"
"Cheese Rolling"
"Chess-Boxing" which is just a hybrid of 2 activities.

[HRPrime]

And they say Esports arn't sports.