Equestrian sports are sports that use horses as a main part of the sport. This usually takes the form of the rider being on the horse's back, or the horses pulling some sort of horse-drawn vehicle.

• 4-H
• Equitation
• Horse show
• Icelandic equitation
• Jineteada gaucha
• Mounted orienteering
• Pleasure riding
• Pony Club
• Sidesaddle
• Sinjska alka
• Techniques de Randonnée Équestre de Compétition
• Trail riding
• Working equitation
• Barrel Racing

• Combined driving
• Dressage
• Endurance
• Eventing
• Para-equestrian
• Show jumping

• Dressage
• Eventing
• Show jumping

• Flat racing
• Harness racing
• Point-to-point
• Steeplechase
• Thoroughbred horse racing

• Classical dressage
• Dressage (see FEI, above)
• English pleasure
• Eventing (see FEI, above)
• Field hunter
• Foxhunting
• Hunt seat
• Saddle seat
• Show hunter
• Show hunter (British)
• Show jumping
• Show hack
• Team chasing

• Cowboy mounted shooting
• Cowboy polo
• Horsemanship
• O-Mok-See
• Reining (see FEI above)
• Trail (horse show)
• Western dressage
• Western pleasure
• Western riding (horse show)

• Camargue equitation
• Campdrafting
• Charreria
• Coleo de toros
• Cutting (sport)
• Ranch sorting
• Team penning
• Working cow horse

• Australian rodeo
• Charreada
• Chilean rodeo
• American rodeo events
  • Barrel racing
  • Breakaway roping
  • Dally ribbon roping
  • Goat tying
  • Pole bending
  • Saddle bronc and bareback riding
  • Steer wrestling
  • Team roping
  • Tie-down roping
  • Steer roping

• Ban'ei racing
• Combined driving (see FEI above)
• Draft horse showing
• Fine harness
• Pleasure driving
• Roadster
• Scurry driving

• Deporte de lazo
• Equestrian drill team
• Horseball (see FEI above)
• Pato
• Polo
• Polocrosse

• Buzkashi
• Corrida de sortija
• Jousting
• Mounted archery
• Mounted Games
• Tent-pegging (see FEI above)