# Name 5 sports that use a net but no ball **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 10, 2004, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-5-sports-that-use-a-net-but-no-ball/228420 "2004-02-10T09:16:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Frank\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Frank\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank_2)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-5-sports-that-use-a-net-but-no-ball/228420/21 "2004-02-10T14:38:48Z")
Ultimate Frisbee doesn’t use a net, it has end zones. [http://www.whatisultimate.com/what/what\_game\_en.html](http://www.whatisultimate.com/what/what_game_en.html) ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Derfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@Lord\_Derfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Derfel)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-5-sports-that-use-a-net-but-no-ball/228420/22 "2004-02-10T15:35:18Z")
Ringette - it was touted as hockey for girls when I was a kid. Played on a standard hockey rink, players have what look like a hockey stick without the blade and use it to push a rubber ring around. It’s hockey with a ring and a pole, basically. I haven’t heard anything about it since the 80’s, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find out it’s still around. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-5-sports-that-use-a-net-but-no-ball/228420/23 "2004-02-10T16:04:04Z")
> [@Frank #2](#): > > Ultimate Frisbee doesn’t use a net, it has end zones. [http://www.whatisultimate.com/what/what\_game\_en.html](http://www.whatisultimate.com/what/what_game_en.html) I think maybe they’d confused it with Frisbee golf. I’ve seen Frisbee golf course with chain link nets on the holes. ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Frank\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank_2)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-5-sports-that-use-a-net-but-no-ball/228420/24 "2004-02-10T16:26:21Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > I think maybe they’d confused it with Frisbee golf. I’ve seen Frisbee golf course with chain link nets on the holes. I thought about disc golf, but dismissed it for 2 reasons: 1. It’s called a basket or a hole, never a net. 2. The chains just hang straight down. They aren’t woven like a net. ---
**Author:** ![refusal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@refusal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/refusal)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-5-sports-that-use-a-net-but-no-ball/228420/25 "2004-02-10T19:42:28Z")
Roller hockey and other variations of hockey use a puck. I don’t know if they count as separate sports though. ---
**Author:** ![gluteus\_maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@gluteus\_maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gluteus_maximus)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-5-sports-that-use-a-net-but-no-ball/228420/26 "2004-02-10T20:21:27Z")
Surfing … the World-Wide Web… a.k.a. ‘the Net’… I can’t believe I beat you dopes to this! 😃😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-5-sports-that-use-a-net-but-no-ball/228420/27 "2004-02-10T20:27:29Z")
Spider-hunting? ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-5-sports-that-use-a-net-but-no-ball/228420/28 "2004-02-10T22:25:43Z")
> [@gluteus maximus](#): > > Surfing … the World-Wide Web… a.k.a. ‘the Net’… > I can’t believe I beat you dopes to this! > > 😃😃😃 > [@Achernar](#): > > Internet Chess Looks like someone beat you to it by several hours, dope. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-5-sports-that-use-a-net-but-no-ball/228420/29 "2004-02-10T22:40:03Z")
> [@Lord Derfel](#): > > Ringette - it was touted as hockey for girls when I was a kid. Played on a standard hockey rink, players have what look like a hockey stick without the blade and use it to push a rubber ring around. It’s hockey with a ring and a pole, basically. > > I haven’t heard anything about it since the 80’s, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find out it’s still around. Granted it’s not much of a cite but I never heard of ringette until I saw this a few weeks ago. Apparently they still play it in the funny papers. [http://comics.com/comics/betty/archive/betty-20040112.html](http://comics.com/comics/betty/archive/betty-20040112.html) ---
**Author:** ![PigArcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@PigArcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigArcher)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-5-sports-that-use-a-net-but-no-ball/228420/30 "2004-02-10T22:40:47Z")
NASCAR, sports car racing, or any other form of motorsport where window nets are used. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Griffin)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-5-sports-that-use-a-net-but-no-ball/228420/31 "2004-02-10T23:42:47Z")
> [@MartinL](#): > > I am not sure Badminton matches the definition. Although the thing is called a “shuttle” in English and not a “ball”, historically it is a ball with feathers (although today it’s only a hemisphere), and other languages use variants of their words for “ball” to describe the shuttle. > I would let the shuttle count as ball. Even a football (American version) is called a ball. Eh, the shuttles are made with goose feathers, and they’ve always been shuttle shaped I think. Also, even if they were’nt, they sure as hell are now, so badminton does indead match the desciption. ---
**Author:** ![jamchampman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@jamchampman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jamchampman)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-5-sports-that-use-a-net-but-no-ball/228420/32 "2004-02-11T01:50:29Z")
Would you actually classify internet games as sports? ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-5-sports-that-use-a-net-but-no-ball/228420/33 "2004-02-11T05:37:42Z")
Snipe hunting? ---
**Author:** ![tFr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6bbea6/32.png) [@tFr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tFr)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-5-sports-that-use-a-net-but-no-ball/228420/34 "2004-02-11T05:55:14Z")
Avoiding FBI dragnet? ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-5-sports-that-use-a-net-but-no-ball/228420/35 "2004-02-11T07:42:48Z")
Netclimbing (given some activity where speed is a factor, you can bet someone does it competitively) would be one, though I doubt you’d have an easy time of finding a cometitive league. Anything competitive with mosquitos or bees would use a net. Same rule about speed above applies here. If you could consider launching humans out of a cannon as a sport, then since that uses a net I’d wager it’d qualify. Same thing with circus acts (trapeze artists, tightrope walking and some trampoline acts from time to time). I suppose “speed grieving” would be lacking just a touch in tact? Same with “speed marrying”, though those are veils rather than nets. I hope I haven’t just given Fox a new idea for a show… ---
**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-5-sports-that-use-a-net-but-no-ball/228420/36 "2004-02-11T07:46:14Z")
> [@Padeye](#): > > Granted it’s not much of a cite but I never heard of ringette until I saw this a few weeks ago. Apparently they still play it in the funny papers. [Ringette Canada](http://www.ringette.ca/e/index.htm), everything you ever wanted to know about ringette. ---
**Author:** ![OM\_Waterfall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/51bf81/32.png) [@OM\_Waterfall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OM_Waterfall)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-5-sports-that-use-a-net-but-no-ball/228420/37 "2004-02-11T08:46:32Z")
Net making? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Griffin)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-5-sports-that-use-a-net-but-no-ball/228420/38 "2004-02-11T12:21:08Z")
> [@OMW](#): > > Net making? We’re really scaping the barrel if anyone things net making is a sport. Sounds like an occupation to me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-5-sports-that-use-a-net-but-no-ball/228420.md?page=1)