Related Sports
- Buzkashi involves two teams of horse riders, a dead goat and few rules. It is played in Central Asia, and has a variant known as kokpar which is quite similar.
- Cycle polo is a similar game played on bicycles instead of horses.
- Cowboy polo uses rules similar to regular polo, but riders compete with western saddles, usually in a smaller arena, using an inflatable rubber medicine ball.
- Horseball is a game played on horseback where a ball is handled and points are scored by shooting it through a high net. The sport is a combination of polo, rugby, and basketball.
- Pato was played in Argentina for centuries, but is much different than modern polo. No mallets are used, and it is not played on grass.
- Polocrosse is another game played on horseback, a cross between polo and lacrosse.
- Water polo shares a name with polo, but more closely resembles team handball.
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