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Hobby horse polo
Hobby horse polo (Steckenpferdpolo) is a polo variant played on foot riding hobby horses, hitting a ball with a mallet into goals. Documented in German club tournaments, scout programs, and steampunk conventions; hobby horsing originates in Finland.
Hobro
Hobro (Hobro IK, Hobro Idræts Klub), Danish football club founded 1913 in Hobro, northern Jutland; promoted to the Superliga for the first time in 2014, 7th in 2014/15, 1st Division champion 2016-17, now in the 1st Division at DS Arena.
Hochst verdachtig
Höchst verdächtig! is a 2002 HABA children's board game by Manfred Ludwig in which players tilt a park board to slide detective figures toward a thief.
Hockenheimring
Hockenheimring (Hockenheim, Germany): 4.574 km FIA Grade 1 circuit opened 1932, rebuilt by Tilke in 2002; hosted the German Grand Prix 34 times, last in 2019; Emodom-owned since 2024.
Hockey
Hockey: family of stick-and-goal team sports, chiefly field hockey (FIH) and ice hockey (IIHF), plus bandy, floorball, and street variants; origins contested between Canada, England, and French etymology.
Hockey 5s
Hockey5s (Hockey 5s) is the FIH's official five-a-side short format of field hockey, four field players plus a goalkeeper on a board-surrounded 40m x 23.7m court; debuted at Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympics, first World Cup in Oman 2024, goals scored from the attacking half.
Hockey Canada sexual assault scandal
Hockey Canada sexual assault scandal: 2018 London, Ontario world junior team allegation, $3.55M lawsuit settled May 2022, National Equity Fund, funding freeze, leadership resignations, 2025 acquittals.
Hockey East
Hockey East (Hockey East Association) is a NCAA Division I men's and women's ice hockey conference founded July 11, 1983, playing since 1984-85. Twelve men's programs, ten women's programs, ten men's NCAA titles, Lamoriello and Bertagna trophies.
Hockey Hall of Fame
Hockey Hall of Fame, Toronto museum and honorary institution (est. 1943, at Brookfield Place since 1993) honoring ice hockey players, builders, and officials; home of the Stanley Cup and the world's largest hockey collection.
Hockey Night in Canada
Hockey Night in Canada, often abbreviated HNIC, is a Canadian television program that has broadcast NHL games on Saturday nights since 1952, a national viewing ritual.
Hockey puck
Hockey puck: the vulcanized rubber disc of ice hockey, 3 in (7.6 cm) diameter, 1 in (2.5 cm) thick, 156–170 g, kept frozen for games; modern design dates to the early 1940s; now also built with tracking chips.
Hogwarts Legacy
Hogwarts Legacy is an open-world action role-playing game set in the Harry Potter wizarding world of the 1800s, released by Warner Bros. in February 2023.
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo (北海道コンサドーレ札幌) is a J.League football club in Sapporo, founded 1935 as Toshiba's works team, moved to Sapporo 1996, three-time J2 champion (2000, 2007, 2016), now in J2 under Kawai Kenta.
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (北海道日本ハムファイターズ), NPB Pacific League club in Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido; owned by Nippon Ham since 1973; moved from Tokyo Dome (1988-2003) to Sapporo Dome (2004-2022), then Es Con Field Hokkaido (2023); 7 pennants, 3 Japan Series titles.
Hokko Tarumae (ホッコータルマエ)
Hokko Tarumae (ホッコータルマエ), Japanese Thoroughbred dirt racer foaled 2009 by King Kamehameha; won a then-record 10 Gr.1/Jpn1 dirt races, 2014 JRA Best Dirt Horse, later a stallion.
Hokm
Hokm (حکم), also spelled Hukm, is Iran's most popular card game, a Persian trick-taking Whist-family game for 2-4 players where the Hâkem names trumps from five cards; seven tricks score a point, seven points win.
Hola
Hola is a Slavic trick-taking card game of the Sedma group, played by Ukrainian-Canadians in Western Canada with a 52-card deck, wild sevens and twos, and 90 points per hand.
Hole carding
Hole carding is an advantage play technique of seeing a dealer's face-down card, mainly in blackjack, through accidental exposure. Distinct from marked-card lenses, rigged shufflers, and edge sorting.
Hole in one
Hole in one (ace): a golf score of 1 on a hole, holing the tee shot. Odds about 12,500 to 1 for amateurs, 3,000 to 1 for tour pros; first recorded by Tom Morris at Prestwick in 1868; commonly insured as prize indemnity.
Holger Badstuber
Holger Badstuber (born 1989, Memmingen) is a retired German left-footed defender, Bayern Munich 2009-2017, six Bundesliga titles, 2013 Champions League, 31 Germany caps, career shortened by cruciate ligament injuries, retired 2022.
Holger Behrendt
Holger Behrendt (born 1964, Schönebeck) is an East German artistic gymnast, 1988 Seoul Olympic rings champion (tied with Bilozerchev), team silver and high bar bronze medalist, later a coach in Cottbus and Berlin.
Holger Quintero
Hólger Jamil Quintero Preciado, Ecuadorian attacking midfielder born 2009 in Esmeraldas, twin of Edwin Quintero; Independiente del Valle player signed by Arsenal, joining August 2027, Ecuador U17 international.
Holger Rune
Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune, Danish tennis player born 2003; career-high ATP No. 4 (2023); 2022 Paris Masters champion over Djokovic; 2025 Barcelona winner; ruptured Achilles in October 2025.
Holiday camp
Holiday camp: British enclosed seaside resort with chalets, meals, and organized entertainment on one site. Pioneered by Cunningham's 1894 Isle of Man camp and Billy Butlin's Skegness camp (1936); chains included Butlin's, Warner, and Pontin.
Höljesbanan
Höljes Rallycross is a rallycross circuit in Höljes, Värmland, Sweden, widely described as the spiritual home of the sport since its first race in 1976.
Holkar Stadium
Holkar Stadium (Holkar Cricket Stadium), Indore, Madhya Pradesh; MPCA-owned cricket ground, about 30,000 seats, opened 1990. High-scoring ODI venue; its 2023 India-Australia Test pitch was rated poor, then below average on appeal.
Hollie Webb Pearne
Hollie Webb Pearne (Hollie Pearne-Webb), English field hockey defender born 1990 in Belper; Rio 2016 Olympic gold via decisive shootout goal, Tokyo 2020 bronze as GB captain, Paris 2024 quarter-finalist, 274 caps, retired 2025.
Hollis Gainey
Hollis "Hoss" Gainey (1936–2017), Colorado City, Texas sprinter for the University of Texas 1957–1959; ran on world-record 440-yard (39.9) and 4x220-yard (1:22.7) relays, 1957 NCAA sixth in 100 and 200 yards, Hall of Honor 2007.
Hollow Knight
Hollow Knight (Team Cherry, 2017) is a 2D Metroidvania action-adventure set in the ruined insect kingdom of Hallownest. Kickstarter-funded, Metacritic 87-90, over 1 million sales; sequel Silksong stars Hornet.
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Hollow Knight: Silksong is Team Cherry's 2025 Metroidvania sequel starring Hornet in the kingdom of Pharloom, released September 4, 2025; Metascore 90, critics 91 versus players 84, with crests and tools replacing charms.