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10 Unusual Sports: Media

Move over football, basketball, and soccer. Check out these 10 unusual sports, from cheese rolling to canal jumping.

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Soapbox racing
Red Bull Soapbox Race, Zagreb, Croatia, September 14, 2019. 
© Ivansmuk/Dreamstime.com
Quidditch
The Keele Squirrels (in green) play the Radcliffe Chimeras during the Crumpet Cup...
Jack Taylor/Getty Images
Cheese rolling
Cheese rolling on Coopers Hill, May 29, 2006, in Gloucester, England.
Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
Underwater hockey
Underwater hockey practice in Hong Kong, February 2017.
Anthony Wallace—AFP/Getty Images
Canal jumping
Fierljeppen, or canal jumping, on the Friesland (Netherlands) waterways. 
Barry Lewis/Alamy
Ear pulling
Ear pulling contest at the 2007 World Eskimo-Indian Olympics, Anchorage, Alaska.
Design Pics Inc./Alamy
Bossaball
Bossaball Championship, Kuwait, 2008.
© Nasser Buhamad/Dreamstime.com