Viewfinder: The World's Wackiest Sports

SI Staff | Jun 14, 2016

Viewfinder: The World's Wackiest Sports /

Viewfinder: The World's Wackiest Sports

World's Grandest Squash Championship at Grand Central Terminal in New York City.

A strongman contender lifts an Atlas stone at the Luss Highland Gathering competition in Luss, Scotland.

At the 33rd annual Outhouse Races in Conconully, Wash., teams of three (two pushers and one rider) race handmade outhouses on skis.

In Tokyo a player tests his footwork at BillicceR, a new sports which combines billiards and soccer.

At Honkakuji, a Japanese temple in Kanagawa, competitors square off in a game of bubble jumper, in which opponents wearing stilts and wrapped in air-filled vinyl bubbles try to knock each other over.

Contestants crawl through the Kiss of Mud, one of 22 obstacles at the World's Toughest Mudder competition at Raceway Park in Englishtown, N.J.

Students wear masks for a game of zombie soccer in Tokyo.

Sumo wrestlers get in a morning workout at Hakkaku Beya in Tokyo.

In 2014, the 31st Annual Snow Golf Tournament was held at Alpine Meadows in Tahoe City, Calif. The event is a nine-hole tournament played in snow.

Invented by Seattle metal artist Rusty Oliver, flaming tetherball is a sport in which competitors hit a flaming roll of toilet paper with a tennis racket.

Published Jun 14, 2016

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