Sport to try
Draw a random sport - team, racket, water, winter, combat, indoor or outdoor.
Runs locally in your browser. Nothing you generate is ever sent to a server.
Press "Generate Sport" to see a result here.
Kind of sport
Press Generate and a sport comes up. The list runs well past the handful everyone names first, taking in racket sports, water sports, winter sports, combat sports and the indoor ones that rarely make a list at all.
The groups follow how sports actually differ in practice: team games, racket sports, water sports, athletics, combat sports, winter sports, outdoor sports and indoor sports. Narrowing before the draw is what makes the tool useful for a PE lesson focused on one type, or for someone who knows they want something indoors.
Most people choose a sport from the five or six they already know, which is a very small slice of what exists. A random draw does the one thing a shortlist cannot: it names something you had not thought of. Padel, bouldering and orienteering are all far easier to start than their obscurity suggests.
The list is filtered to the group you chose, then a sport is drawn using your browser's cryptographic random source with rejection sampling, so no sport is favoured. Batches without repeats use a Fisher-Yates shuffle driven by the same source.
Press Generate and one sport comes up. Press again for another, or raise the quantity for a list.
Yes. The filter covers team, racket, water, athletics, combat, winter, outdoor and indoor sports.
Yes. That is one of the better uses - most people pick from the same five sports they already know, and a random draw puts something else in front of you.
Yes. Set the quantity and press once, then Copy All to take the whole list, one per line.
Many are, but the list also includes sports that are popular without being Olympic, like squash, pickleball and bouldering.
Yes. Each sport is drawn with your browser's cryptographic random source, so every sport in the chosen group has an equal chance.