Arcade video game
Arcade video game: coin-operated electronic game machine; began with Computer Space (1971) and Pong (1972), golden age late 1970s to late 1980s, crash 1982-1984, decline by 2000.
Archery
Archery, from Latin arcus, is shooting arrows with a bow; a sport since the Mesolithic, permanently Olympic since 1972 (recurve, 70 m), central to the Paralympics since 1960, and governed by World Archery.
Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics (Tokyo, 23-31 July 2021, Yumenoshima Park Archery Field): five recurve events including the debut mixed team; 128 archers from 51 nations; Korea won four golds, An San three, Mete Gazoz men's individual.
Archery at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Archery at the 2020 Summer Paralympics: nine recurve, compound open and W1 events at Yumenoshima Park, Tokyo, in 2021; 139 athletes from 42 nations; China topped the medal table with four golds.
Archery at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Archery at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Paris 2024 (Jeux Olympiques): five recurve events at Esplanade des Invalides, 25 July to 4 August 2024, 128 archers; South Korea won all five golds, Kim Woojin and Lim Sihyeon three each.
Archery at the Asian Games
Archery at the Asian Games is the recurve and compound bow competition held since 1978, with ten events today, won by South Korea at every Games until India topped the 2023 medal table.
Archery at the Commonwealth Games
Archery at the Commonwealth Games is an optional sport, appearing only at Brisbane 1982 and Delhi 2010, with eight recurve and compound events in 2010.
Archery at the Summer Olympics
Archery at the Summer Olympics: recurve target archery at 70 m, held 1900-1920 and continuously since Munich 1972; five events since Tokyo 2020, six at LA28 with compound mixed team; Korea leads with 39 medals.
Archery at the Summer Paralympics
Archery at the Summer Paralympics, also called Para archery, is a Paralympic archery discipline for physically impaired athletes, held at every Games since Rome 1960, with recurve open, compound open, and W1 divisions at 70 metres, governed by World Archery.
Archery in Bhutan
Archery in Bhutan, the national sport since 1971, also called dazo for bow making; traditional 11-player bamboo-bow matches at 145 m, compound bows now dominant, recurve for international competition.
Archery World Cup
Archery World Cup (Hyundai Archery World Cup), World Archery's annual recurve and compound circuit since 2006: four stages plus a matchplay final, 2026 marking its 20th edition, Sara Lopez its most decorated archer.
Archie Griffin
Archie Griffin (Archie Mason Griffin), born 1954, is the only two-time Heisman Trophy winner (1974, 1975), an Ohio State running back who set the NCAA career rushing record of 5,177 yards and later led the Ohio State Alumni Association.
Archie Hahn
Archie Hahn (Charles Archibald Hahn, 1880-1955), "The Milwaukee Meteor", American sprinter; first to win the Olympic 100m-200m double, plus 60m, at St. Louis 1904, and 100m gold at Athens 1906.
Archie Mackinnon
Archie Mackinnon (Archibald Alan MacKinnon, 1937-2026), Canadian rower, bow of UBC's Cinderella Four that won Canada's first Olympic rowing gold at Melbourne 1956; also silver in the eights at Rome 1960 and Commonwealth gold in 1958.
Archie Manning
Archie Manning, born Elisha Archie Manning III in 1949, is a former NFL quarterback who starred at Ole Miss and played mostly for the New Orleans Saints.
Archie Miller (basketball)
Archie Miller (born 1978) is an American college basketball coach, head coach at Rhode Island since 2022 and formerly head coach at Dayton (139-63, 2014 Elite Eight) and Indiana (67-58), career 261-192.
Archie Moore
Archie Moore, born Archibald Lee Wright, was an American boxer who held the light heavyweight title from 1952 to 1962, with the most knockouts in boxing history.
Archie San Romani Sr
Archie San Romani Sr (Archie Joseph San Romani, 1912-1994), Kansas-born American miler; NCAA mile and 1500m champion for Emporia State, fourth in the 1936 Berlin Olympic 1500m, 2000m world record holder (5:16.8, 1937), Glenn Cunningham's 28-race rival.
Archie Stinchcombe
Archie Stinchcombe (Archibald Stinchcombe, 1912-1994), British ice hockey right winger born in Cudworth, Yorkshire; 1936 Olympic gold medalist with Great Britain, 1948 Olympic captain, and Nottingham Panthers coach; played his whole career blind in one eye.
Archie Thompson
Archie Thompson, born Archibald Thompson in 1978, is a New Zealand-born Australian former striker who scored a world-record 13 goals in one international match for Australia in 2001.
Archie Vaughan
Archie Vaughan (Archie Matthew Vaughan, born 2005, Sheffield), English cricketer, son of 2005 Ashes-winning captain Michael Vaughan; Somerset right-hand bat and off-spinner, 11-140 vs Surrey 2024, England U19 captain, contracted to 2028.
Archie Williams
Archie Franklin Williams (1915-1993), American 400 m runner, 1936 Berlin Olympic gold medalist and world record holder (46.1), later a Tuskegee flight instructor, Air Force lieutenant colonel, and California teacher.
Archimedes (game)
Archimedes is a 1988 two-player abstract strategy board game by Scott Marley and Philip Cohen, played on an 8x8 grid with 12 checkers-as-ships per side; ships move like queens, burn when attacked by three or more enemy ships, and win by occupying the enemy port. Distinct from the 1981 pyramid game and Rock Me Archimedes.
Arco (video game)
Arco is a 2024 tactical RPG published by Panic for PC, Switch, PS5, and Xbox Series X. Set in a Mesoamerican-inspired fantasy frontier, it features simultaneous turn-based, gridless combat and scored 86 on Metacritic.
Arctic Eggs
Arctic Eggs is a 2024 surreal first-person physics cooking game by The Water Museum and CRITICAL REFLEX, released May 16, 2024, in which a disgraced Poultry Peddler fries eggs for residents of a far-future Antarctic settlement.
Ard Schenk
Ard Schenk (Adrianus Schenk) is a Dutch former speed skater, born in 1944, who won three gold medals at the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics and set 18 world records.
Arda Güler
Arda Güler (born 2005, Ankara) is a Turkish attacking midfielder for Real Madrid and Türkiye, signed from Fenerbahçe in 2023, EURO 2024 youngest goalscorer, and 2025/26 Champions League Revelation of the Season.
Arda Turan
Arda Turan (Arda Turan), born 1987 in Istanbul, Turkish midfielder for Galatasaray, Atlético Madrid, and Barcelona; now Shakhtar Donetsk head coach, winning the 2025/26 Ukrainian title.
Ardie Savea
Ardie Savea, New Zealand All Blacks number eight and captain, 2023 World Rugby Men's 15s Player of the Year; played for Hurricanes, Moana Pasifika, Kobe Steelers, joining Blues in 2027.
Ards
Ards FC, Newtownards, Northern Ireland football club founded 1900; Irish League champions 1957-58, four-time Irish Cup winners, 1973-74 four-trophy season; homeless since 1998, new stadium approved 2026.