Snowball fighting
In its simplest form, a snowball fight involves throwing snowballs at another person, or team, with the intention of hitting them. For many of us, as kids this was a winter highlight. Japan and India have taken things …
Turtle Racing
Turtle racing is a spectator sport in which – in its most common form – participants place turtles in the center of a circle and watch them wander around until one of them reaches the edge circle. It …
Frog Jumping
Frog jumping is a competitive sport in which people enter their most athletic frogs into a variety of events to jump particular distances. Annual frog jumping contests are part of the local culture in a variety of towns …
La Tomatina
La Tomatina is a festival held in the Valencian town of Buñol (Spain) on the last Wednesday of August each year, which centers around participants throwing tomatoes at each other. The Tomatina is essentially an enormous tomato fight …
Cheese Rolling
Cheese rolling is a high-risk* sport which involves chasing a high-speed wheel of cheese at breakneck speed down a very steep hill in one specific town in the south-west of England. Oh, and if you choose to participate …
Pea Shooting
Pea shooting involves firing dried green peas by blowing out rapidly through a pipe or tube at some sort of target. The sport of pea shooting involves firing peas at a target, which is formed out of (or …
Hot Dog Eating
Hot dog eating is a competition to see who can can eat the greatest number of hot dogs, in a predefined period of time. Typically the hot dogs are allowed to cool slightly after grilling to avoid burning …
Cheese Racing
The little-known sport of cheese racing was invented in 1997 in Dorset, UK after a group of camping friends performed a brave experiment involving processed cheese slices and a red-hot barbecue, unaware that they were in the process …