adaptive sports
Modified competitive activities
Adaptive sports are athletic activities modified for participants with physical, sensory, or cognitive disabilities.
Equipment, rules, or techniques are adjusted to accommodate different abilities—wheelchair basketball, blind skiing, seated volleyball.
The term emphasizes adaptation rather than limitation: She competed in adaptive sports after losing her leg.
Also called parasports or disability sports.
- bocciaParalympic target ball sport
- goalballTeam sport for visually impaired
- sled hockeyIce sport using sleds
- wheelchair basketballSport using rolling seats
- prosthetic limbsArtificial replacement body parts
Paralympic Games · Special Olympics · sitting volleyball · tandem bicycles · guide runner · sit-skis · outriggers · classification system · parasport · para-athletics · Invictus Games · mono-skis · sledges · wheelchair rugby · physical rehabilitation · handcycling · hand cycling · amputee
- sports typesmartial arts
- rehabilitationrehab, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, inpatient rehab
- disability supportwheelchair, walker, crutches, braces, hearing aid
- senior wellnesshealth, wellbeing, active lifestyle, healthy diet, balance exercises
- disabilitydisability rights, disability culture, disability activism, disability services, disability identity
- Adaptive PEmodified rules, wheelchair basketball, boccia, goalball, sitting volleyball