Sports & Recreation

All over the world, Indigenous communities are active in sports and recreation and act as champions in physical activity. Sports are an organized, competitive, entertaining, and skillful activity requiring commitment, strategy, and fair play whereas recreation may be sport activity that is performed for leisure, play, pastime, or exercise and it is not as competitive.

The more we participate in sports and recreational activities, the more we improve our wholistic health and wellness. IPACC supports this idea and believes that empowering people to be involved in sporting and recreational activities is the next step towards healthy and thriving communities.

IPACC supports the next North American Indigenous Games, to be announced after COVID-19 pandemic is over: naig2020.com

IPACC recognizes that there are a variety of sporting opportunities. Below you will find a list of sporting and recreational activities:

Alpine Skiing
Archery
Athletics
Badminton
Ball Hockey
Baseball
Basketball
Biathlon
Blind Sports
Bowling
Boxing
Canoe / Kayaking
Cricket
Cross Country Running
Cross Country Skiing
Curling
Cycling

Dance Sport
Deaf Sports
Disabled Skiing
Disc Sport
Diving
Fencing
Field Hockey
Figure Skating
Floorball
Football
Freestyle Skiing
Golf
Gymnastics
Hockey
Horse Council
Jiu-Jitsu
Judo

Karate
Lacrosse
Lawn Bowling
Lifesaving
Marathons
Netball
Orienteering
Powerlifting
Rhythmic Gymnastics
Ringette
Rowing
Rugby
Running
Sailing
Snowboarding
Soaring
Soccer

Softball
Special Olympics
Speed Skating
Squash
Swimming
Synchronized Swimming
Table Tennis
Taekwondo
Tennis
Track or Field
Triathlon
Volleyball
Water Skiing / Wakeboarding
Water polo
Weightlifting
Wheelchair Sports
Wrestlin

Please do not hesitate to share your sports or recreation events with IPACC on our social media links.