Final Fantasy X has a sci-fi sport called “blitz ball” that is played in a spherical swimming pool. (The athletes are inexplicably immune to suffocation.) Structurally resembles sports like soccer or hockey, with two teams of players competing for control of a ball, and goals defended by goalies.
The Ian Banks novel The Player of Games includes depictions of board games, VR fighting games, and an absurdly-complicated, vaguely-described game that an alien empire uses to determine everyone’s rank in society. Some or all of those might count as “sports” depending on how you define the term, though none of them seem like central examples.
Final Fantasy X has a sci-fi sport called “blitz ball” that is played in a spherical swimming pool. (The athletes are inexplicably immune to suffocation.) Structurally resembles sports like soccer or hockey, with two teams of players competing for control of a ball, and goals defended by goalies.
The Ian Banks novel The Player of Games includes depictions of board games, VR fighting games, and an absurdly-complicated, vaguely-described game that an alien empire uses to determine everyone’s rank in society. Some or all of those might count as “sports” depending on how you define the term, though none of them seem like central examples.