Wizarding Sports

[Kcharles]

Do you think that wizards have any sports other than Quidditch? And that if they were to hold an Olympics, would they play some muggle sports? Would the wizards even have Olympics?

[OliveOil_Med]

There's Quodpot: a popular sport in America. I think Quidditch and Quodpot are somewhat similar in terms of British football and American football.

Quodpot is played with a exploding Quaffle that needs to be dropped in a cauldron, but little else is know about it.

[Kcharles]

So I'd have free reign with that basicly, right?


I think that dueling might be included too.

[Inverarity]

Not much has been said in canon about wizarding sports other than Quidditch and Quodpot. There's also gobstones, but I don't know if that qualifies as a sport.

[star_sailor]

Yeah, essentially free reign. Just try to incorporate real life sports - mix them together and what not - and see what turns out. I'd love to see something like polo played with wands! Fair warning though, it's tough to make a fully functioning sport up without gaps in the gameplay. I made a huge list of rules for my own reference for Quodpot, and it took forever to get just right. I'd suggest when inventing, read a wikipedia article, and try to write an article about your own sport in the same format. It helps things stay coherent and organized, at least for you as an author. :P

[OliveOil_Med]

And if your going for Olympic-style sports, you could try coming up with a racing game with broomsticks. Also, something in the water might be fun to come up with. Maybe even something involving winged horses. I would also research a bunch of different sports in the Olympics (how lucky we are that this is an Olympic year!). Then you could really let your imagination run wild.

Just some more suggestions, though.

[ginny112]

The only sports mentioned in canon are Quidditch and Quodpot. I was going to suggest Gobstones, but I guess it's less of a sport. Dueling could be a sort of sport, too, like boxing or wrestling in real life.


You could take inspiration from real life sports and combine it with the magical aspects. Some suggestions would be Hippogriff racing, Threstal racing, and I wouldn't mind seeing something like tennis being played wizard-stlye on brooms. You have a lot of freedom to create your own sport, so good luck.

[Kcharles]

Ok, so so far my list is:

Quidditch
Quadpot
Broom Racing
Thestral "Orienteering"
Hippogriff racing



Do you think that only National Teams could qualify for the Quidditch part, or could teams like the Holyhead Harpies qualify too?

[OliveOil_Med]

My quess would be that only national teams would. No doubt, if someone from a local team displayed exceptional talent they would be added to the team, but aren't Olympic teams normally made up of the best athletes from different teams?

[MorganRay]

Do you think that wizards have any sports other than Quidditch? And that if they were to hold an Olympics, would they play some muggle sports? Would the wizards even have Olympics?

Quidditch always seemed to be modeled upon soccer, which is popular in Europe and the rest of the world (how's that for an understatement). Rowing is also popular in GB, so maybe there would be something of the equivalent. Maybe there wouldn't be a program at Hogwarts, but there could possibly be a national team or something. Broom racing in the water? That's not creative, I know. :)

There could also be dragon racing. That could only be described as awesome. However, that idea has been used, so I would understand if you didn't want to use dragons. It seems like there are more 'tests' (Tri-Wizard style) than there are actual team sports as competition in the wizard world.

I kind of *want* the wizard world to have Olympics, but I kind of think they might not have them. However, I can see some athletically inclined wizards competing in Muggle sports incognito. I can see why Muggle sports would attract some wizards. Maybe some 'ecentric' wizards have road races. :)

[beccleroo]

So I dug up my old "Quidditch Through the Ages" and this is what it says about broom sports.
There is an annual broom race in Sweden. It is a three hundred mile race that passes through a dragon reservation.
The Germans play Stitchstock. But it died out in the fourteenth century. (Modern revival perhaps?)
Aingingein was played in Ireland. It is a type of obstacle course on broomstick.
Although it is banned, Scotland once played the deadly Creaothceann.
Shuntbumps is a form of jousting on broomsticks popular in Devon, England. It is still a children's game.
Swivenhodge was also played in Herefordshire, England. Players use the end of their brooms to swish an inflated goats bladder across a hedge.
I hope this helps!

[OliveOil_Med]

What also might be fun is to experiment with some winter sports, ones that could have originated in countries in the Artic Circle.

I was recently wanting Happy Feet with my niece (but I like it too), and while all the penguins were sliding down the icy cliff, I kept thinking to myself "there has to be a wizarding sport in this somewhere". Maybe they even hold the Olympic game in Antarctica for the sport.

I'm not quite sure how it would work myself, but it would be something fun to mull over at the very least.

Also, I very sure wizards could have at least a few water sports as well. Maybe something originally played by merpeople then revitalized to be played by wizards.

[Immortal Mongoose]

Muggle Olympics have fencing, so I'd expect the wizard equivalent to have dueling. We know that it's a competitive sport of some kind--after all, Flitwick is supposed to be a champion.