Sport in Golarian?

[DomHeroEllis]

Is there any info on team sports or any sports at all on Golarian?

I wanted to make an encounter where the party walk into a soccer equivalent and the bandits are in just a good enough mood that they challenge them to a game rather than murder, and was wondering what I could use.

[keftiu]

In Arcadia, there's the sport of boundball, which we know crosses between multiple nations.

[Deadmanwalking]

There's not a lot of information on specific sports in Golarion. Still, we have a few bits of info:

-In the bad parts of Korvosa, Blood Pig and Knivesies are both popular (and both show up in CotCT) but both seem definitively local. 'Shingle dashing' (basically parkour) also falls under the same general banner.

-Kurgess was a professional athlete, but what athletic competitions he engaged in aside from foot races are a bit ambiguous (though there were others, that much is clear), though given the javelin as his favored weapon, something involving javelin tossing is likely.

-Horse racing is considered the 'sport of kings' in Qadira, so that's clearly a thing.

-Gladiatorial combat of various sorts (including unarmed, nonlethal, fights roughly equivalent to various modern combat sports, as shown in Kess's backstory) is pretty common and mentioned various places.

-Ruk is a ball game popular in Katapesh (though likely known elsewhere). That seems closest to what you're looking for, honestly.

[Gorbacz]

It's Gelerion, not Galrion. When will people learn to spell the setting's name correctly?

[krobrina]

Racing. Dragon wagon race. The wizard lizard race was cancelled by a blizzard.

[Mudfoot]

Prismati. Throw painted rocks around and try not to get hurt.

[DomHeroEllis]

Gorbacz wrote:

It's Gelerion, not Galrion. When will people learn to spell the setting's name correctly?

I'm using the Elven spelling of Golarion.