Wacky Sports Around the World

                                                           Buzkashi
Buzkashi "goat grabbing" is the Afghan national sport. It is also a popular sport among the south Central Asians. Both games are played between people on horseback, both involve propelling an object toward a goal. Compare to polo, buzkashi is played with the carcass of a headless goat instead of a ball. These days, a calf is used more often than a goat as the carcass of a calf is more durable.Polo matches are played for fixed periods totaling about an hour; traditional Buzkashi may continue for days.

Camel Racing

Camel racing is a popular sport in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Pakistan, Mongolia, Oman and Australia . It takes place every year from late October to early April. There's no betting in camel racing, it's an event for  tourist attraction. Camels can run at speeds up to 65 km/h (18 m/s; 40 mph) in short sprints and they can maintain a speed of 40km/h (11 m/s; 25 mph) for an hour, camels race along a sand track up to 10 miles long.

Cheese Rolling

Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling is an annual event held on the Spring Bank Holiday at Cooper's Hill, in the Cotswolds region of England. It is traditionally by and for the people who live in the local village of Brockworth, but now people from all over the world take part. The event takes its name from the hill on which it occurs.It's a bone-crushing race where people run, stumble and slide down a steep hill to catch massive rolls of cheese. The first person to grab the cheese wins and gets to take it home. 

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Tuna Tossing

Tuna Tossing at the Tunarama Festival in Port Lincoln, Australia is a World Championship sports occurs yearly. Participants can toss a 10 kg frozen tuna in any way they want for as far as they can by beating the records of 25 meters long streches. In this festival they also holds an annual prawn toss. The winning price a AU$3,000. 

Quidditch

Quidditch is a fictional sport created by British author J. K. Rowling for the Harry Potter series of novels. It is described as an extremely rough but very popular semi-contact sport, played by wizards and witches around the world. Matches are played between two teams of seven players riding flying broomsticks, using four balls and six elevated ring-shaped goals three on each side of the Quidditch pitch (field). The sport has been adapted under the name of "Muggle Quidditch" to the real world. Since at least 2003, Harry Potter fans have played ball games resembling the Harry Potter sport. In the United States, teams from more than 200 colleges are affiliated with the International Quidditch Association and play tournaments. This low-flying version of the game started at Middlebury College in Vermont and now plays out at a college and high school campuses across the US and 12 other countries. 

Greasy Pole Climbing

Greasy pole or grease pole refers to a pole that has been made slippery and thus difficult to grip. More specifically, it is the name of several events that involve staying on, climbing up, walking over or otherwise traversing such a pole. This kind of event exist in several variations around the world, including Philippines, Indonesia, Brazil, the UK and the Caribbean. 40 to 50 men aged 18 and 60 test the slipperiness and attempt to be the first to reach the end of the pole and grab the red flag at the end. The event usually held on June 29, June 30 and July 1.

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Bun Climbing

Cheung Chau Bun Festival is a traditional Chinese festival on the island of Cheung Chau in Hong Kong. Being held annually, and with therefore the most public exposure. Such events are held by mostly rural communities in Hong Kong, either annually or at a set interval of years ranging all the way up to once every 60 years. Other places that may share the folk custom include Taiwan, Sichuan, Fujian and Guangdong. Thousands of locals and tourists gather on the tiny fishing island of Cheung Chau to celebrate the festival and watch the bun climbing. The Bun Mountains are 60-foot-tall steel structures covered with delicious, decorative steamed buns and bamboo scaffolding. Men compete in a race to climb up the towers and grab as many buns as possible. The person with the most buns wins. 12 finalists are chosen to compete in the bun climbing competition. For safety reasons, fake buns are now used to stop the possibility of climbers slipping.

Corn Hole

Cornhole, also known as bean bag toss, is a lawn game in which players take turns throwing bean bags at a raised platform with a hole in the far end. These platforms are usually made with plywood or plastic and are often decorated. A corn bag in the hole scores 3 points, while one on the platform scores 1 point. Play continues until a player reaches the score of 21. There they vie in two-person or two-team matches, looking to rack up 21 points by landing more of their bean bags than their opponents' on the raised board (1 point) or through the 6-inch-diameter hole at its center (3 points) from 27 feet away. 

Pumpkin Chunking

Pumpkin Chucking, or for rhyming purposes Pumpkin Chunking (also called Punkin' Chunkin', Pumpkin Chunkin', and Punkin Chuckin') is the sport of hurling or 'chucking' a pumpkin by mechanical means for distance. The devices used include slingshots, catapults, centrifugals, trebuchets, and pneumatic air cannons. A pneumatic air cannon named 'Big 10 Inch' holds the current world record by firing a pumpkin 5,545.43 feet (1,690.247 meters). The world record shot took place September 9, 2010 in Moab, Utah. The shot received certification from Guinness World Records in early January, 2011. Pumpkin chunking competitions, formal and informal, exist throughout the United States in the autumn, and often occur when pumpkins are harvested.

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Outhouse Racing

Found through much of the US, this is a sport of hometown fun and foolishness. The Australians practice it too, though there it is known as dunny racing. The rules require each racing outhouse to contain a toilet seat and a toilet paper dispenser. There can be only two pushers, two pullers and one rider per outhouse, which is mounted on skis. The races brought more than 500 people to town for the hee-hawing and never-ending bathroom jokes. And there were prizes to be had: trophies in the form of toilet seats -- gold, silver and bronze.