While we are each of them is aware of popular sports, however there are some that are unknown which a global impact.

Urban Golf

So you don't want to stroll the golf green and enjoy all that healthy exercise. There is however, one more option, referred to as Urban golf. This is as soon as the players pound an innocent warehouse wall with their golf ball.

Bike Polo

Whenever you haven't got any four-legged horses, one way to play polo is on cycles. This swiftly expanding sport has quickly developed into a major international competitive calendar.

Unicycle Sport

The unicycle, once only seen in circuses, or on stage, has turned into a global phenomenon. From acrobats and balancing acts, to mountain racing unicycle and hockey the single wheeler has become an overnight wonder.

Roller Derby

Roller Derby participants pride themselves with their union of attitude and punk grit and indisputable athletic expertise. In 2007 the women's Flat-Track Derby Association had its first national roller derby's championship tournament.

Wife Carrying

Firstly introduced in Finland, wife carrying is a sport where male competitors race while carrying a female team mate. The aim is for the male to carry his partner, whose task is to maintain balance, over just one obstacle course, within the fastest time.

The carrying holds vary from fireman's carry, piggyback, to Estonian style, the spot that the woman hangs on upside-down, with her legs around her partner's shoulders, as she clings in order to his waist. Major competitions are residing in Wisconsin, Finland, Monona, Sonkajarvi, and in Marquette, Michigan.

The prize in Finland is the woman's weight in beer.

Moustache Championships

As seen in the biennial World Beard And Moustache Championships, growing a beard and moustache can be a serious business. Men get to display their carefully manicured exceptional beards and moustaches.

Categories include goatee, Dali moustache and full beard freestyle.

Of course you must have all the correct tools, from moustache nets, to moustache wax, combs, brushes and scissors.

Recreational Sport of Zorbing

There is increased desire for Zorbing, though many check this out simply as the recreational outdoor activity. Each participant 'walks' down a pair pathway, in an exceedingly car-sized globe of plastic, reaching speeds of until 50 kms per per hour. There are medical limitations and it is not really a sport for that weak hearted.

Cardboard Tube Duelling

We know about the knights of old dueling in their coats of armour. The modern knight is particularly serious about his Cardboard Tube Duelling. The participants duel with cardboard tubes, dressed in cardboard box amour.

Snow Polo

The olden day sport of Snow Polo once were popular amongst the Turkish emperors. It is played on compacted snow on a frozen lake, or flat ground.

Polo however, has not been confined solely to horseback. Money-making niches now camel polo, BMX polo, canoe polo, yak polo, elephant polo, golfcart polo and underwater polo.