List of Fictional Games - Sports

Sports

• 12 Ball - a game similar to 4 player ping pong but plays on a table shaped like an + with a player standing at each point and wielding 2 double ended paddles a hand that comes out of the middle serves the ball then periodically ads more the longer there is no score until there are 12 in play. The Wizards of Waverly Place
• 43-Man Squamish - fictional college sport from Mad Magazine
• Aargrooha - Troll football, traditionally played with a human head, Discworld
• Aeroball - futuristic version of basketball played with jet packs in the 2000 AD strip Harlem Heroes
• Aerocrosse - variable-gravity game featuring elements of lacrosse, from Orbital Resonance by John Barnes
• Anbo-Jitsu - from Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Apopudobalia - encyclopedia fictitious entry
• Assassin's Guild Wall Game - " a cross between squash, urban rock climbing and actual bodily harm", Discworld (named after the Eton Wall Game)
• Australian Indoor Rules Quiddich - A game created by webcomic MacHall. Link to Comic
• BASEketball - from the movie of the same name
• Baskiceball - From the sitcom How I Met Your Mother, a game that consist mainly of "wailing on each other" with no real rules.
• Blernsball - 30th century version of baseball, Futurama
• Blitzball - Final Fantasy X, also a game created by Phineas in the novel, "A Separate Peace."
• Blood Bowl - a fictional form of football from the tabletop wargame of the same name
• Brockian Ultra-Cricket - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Boxer Hockey - Boxer Hockey Webcomic A mix of Cricket, Rugby, and Hockey all played on a pitch with frogs as the ball
• B'tduz - A game in which two dwarfs stand a few feet apart and throw rocks at each other's heads. Discworld
• Bungee Ball - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward
• Calvinball - A game where there are only 2 rules: players can make new, ridiculous rules at will, and you can never play the same way twice. Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
• Centrifugal Bumblepuppy - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Croquet using flamingos as mallets - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Crossball - a tennis-like game from The Vorkosigan Saga
• Deathball - a giant ball maze game played in Futurama
• Eggboard, a team sport invented by Dada artist Jean Arp, in which both teams leave the field of play
• Electro-Magnetic Golf - from Brave New World
• Escalator Squash - from Brave New World
• Eschaton - the novel Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• Farnarkeling - created by John Clarke, in the 1980s Australian TV comedy show The Gillies Report. It was played on a field called a grommet in periods called umlauts, with players 'warbling vigorously' with 'the bevelled orb'. Dave Sorensen was 'the hope of Australian farnarkeling'.
• Fightball - the basketballish game played by the gangs in the Fightball card game
• Fire Ball - game invented by Chandler and Joey - Friends TV series
• Five Bar Gate - A game reminicsent of both squash and ice hockey from the comic book Cerebus.
• Fizzball - Involves hitting beer cans with bats or other sticks, with no points or competitive elements, popularized in Sam & Max comics
• Flonkerton - created by Jim in the Office episode, Office Olympics.
• Frungy - played by the Zoq-Fot-Pik in Star Control II
• Futuresport - from the movie of the same name.
• German batball - from Kurt Vonnegut's novel The Sirens of Titan
• Goblin Football - from Goblins of the Labyrinth by Terry Jones and Brian Froud. The object is to eat the ball, which is made difficult by the fact that the ball is several feet in diameter and made of solid teak
• Gravball - Mentioned by Spartan John-117 in the novel Halo: The Fall of Reach
• Grifball - Red vs. Blue
• Guyball - Ball game played by Green Wing's Dr Guy Secretan.
• Hadaul - from Jack Vance's Demon Princes book The Face
• Hussade - from Jack Vance's Alastor series.
• Indoor hang gliding - Geoff Maltby in the television series Benidorm claims to be North West champion at it.
• Ja'La dh Jin - from Terry Goodkind's The Sword of Truth series.
• Jiggly Ball - from Scrubs' My Jiggly Ball episode.
• Jugger - from the movie The Blood of Heroes
• Kasaba ball - from the show Jungle Cubs in the episode 'Kasaba ball'.
• Killball - referenced several times in the book The Running Man, but not described much
• Kohlii - from Lego's Bionicle franchise.
• Kosho - from the TV series The Prisoner
• The Game - From Piers Anthony's Apprentice Adept series of novels. Includes almost all known games and competitions; winners of the yearly Tourney get to become Citizens.
• Laserball - from the movie The Fifth Element
• Lifting - Popular extreme sport, similar to surfing, but in the air; practitioners ride "reflection boards" on waves of "Transparence Light Particles". From anime/manga series Eureka Seven.
• The Long Walk - from a Richard Bachman/Stephen King book of the same name.
• The Maze (or Glide) - from The Maze Game by Diana Reed Slattery
• Moopsball --team sport created by Gary Cohn in "Rules for Moopsball" (1976), referenced in Legion of Superheroes and in Gene Wolfe's There Are Doors
• Motorball - from the Battle Angel Alita manga
• Nib - an exceedingly violent sport mentioned in the Starship Titanic novel and computer game.
• Obstacle Golf - from Brave New World
• Parrises Squares - an athletic, full-contact sport in Star Trek
• Podracing - violent vehicular racing sport from Star Wars
• Pro Thunderball - from Upright Citizens Brigade
• Pyramid - a ball game played on a pyramid-shaped court in the new Battlestar Galactica series
• Quantum soccer - from Greg Egan's "Border Guards"
• Quidditch - from Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
• Quodpot - from Quidditch Through the Ages by J. K. Rowling
• Real Foosball - from I Am Weasel
• Rollerball - from William Harrison's story Roller Ball Murder, on which the movie Rollerball was loosely based
• Shirling - The Kids in the Hall
• Skeet Surfing - a combination of skeet shooting and surfing seen in the film Top Secret!, possibly parodying the biathlon.
• Sky-surfing - appearing in numerous Judge Dredd stories.
• Sniffleball - a variation of baseball from an episode of Chowder of the same name.
• Speedball - Futuristic mix of Handball and Hockey featured in the games of the same name.
• Spheda - A golf-like game from the PlayStation 2 adventure game Dark Chronicle (Dark Cloud 2).
• Springball - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Star Racing - low-to-medium altitude hovercraft racing sport from Oban Star-Racers; superficially similar to Podracing
• Street Football - 2000 AD (comics)
• Struggle - "Kingdom Hearts II"
• Taking the Stone - In Farscape, a game played by the youth of an unnamed royal cemetery planet. The game consists of jumping into a deep well, and chanting while falling. A sonic net at the bottom of the well, sustained by the participants voices, cushions their fall. When the youth reach the age of 22 cycles, rather than grow old and be deformed by the planet's radiation, they stop chanting part way into the leap and die against the rocks. This death is called Taking the Stone.
• Thrashball - a game that sounds similar to American Football. Gears of War
• Thunderball - Full contact basketball with a hockey-like playing area, and encouragement of wrestling, fighting and general manhandling of other players.
• Timmyball - Fairly Odd Parents
• Transcontinental Road Race - Death Race 2000
• Triad - a contact sport with elements of football and basketball from Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)
• Troll Ball - from supplementary material published for the RuneQuest roleplaying game and other Glorantha references.
• Ultimate Robot Fighting - "Raging Bender" episode of Futurama
• Walnut Hockey - "Rose Is Rose"
• Weltraumball - a funny mix of football and handball with authorized doping and cybernetics enhancements, played in weightlessness, from Roland C. Wagner's novel Mine de rien
• Wizard Squash - also called Real Squash (similar to real tennis), a much more leisurely game than ordinary squash, except that the ball may rebound off a wall it hasn't hit. Discworld
• Yooyuball - a variation of jai alai or lacrosse from Neopets, which is played every year as part of the Altador Cup.
• Zero-G Football - Red Dwarf sitcom
• Zero-G Kickboxing - Red Dwarf sitcom

See also List of fictional sports teams