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American Football
A high-contact team sport played with an oval ball where teams advance downfield in scripted plays to score touchdowns.
Looking for 16-letter sports? Here are 4 sports that fit — each linked to a full profile.
Letters are counted across the whole name with spaces, hyphens, apostrophes, and diacritics excluded. "Apple Pie" is 8 letters; "Boeuf Bourguignon" is 16.
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| American Football | Dragon Boat Racing | Mixed Martial Arts | Underwater Hockey |
List of 16-letter Sports
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Dragon Boat Racing
A team paddling sport raced in a long ornate canoe with a drummer, helmsman, and 20 paddlers stroking in unison.
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Mixed Martial Arts
A full-contact combat sport combining striking and grappling from boxing, wrestling, Muay Thai, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
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Underwater Hockey
A submerged team sport in which snorkellers push a heavy puck across a pool floor using short curved hockey sticks.
About 16-letter sports
That's our current list of sports with exactly 16 letters. Need a different length? Try the browse-by-length pills in the sidebar, or combine with a starting letter — for example, 16-letter sports that start with A.