• Rugby football
  • Rugby League
  • Rugby Union
  • Rugby Sevens
  • Touch Rugby — a variant of rugby league replacing tackles with a touch. Also call Touch Football or Touch Footy.
    • Tag Rugby — a form of non-contact rugby league using a velcro tag to indicate a tackle.
      • OzTag — a form of Tag Rugby played in Australia.
  • Wheelchair Rugby, also Wheelchair power tag rugby and Wheelchair rugby league

• American football — called “football” in the United States, and “gridiron” or “gridiron football” in Australasia.
  • Arena football — an indoor version of American football
  • Touch football — non-tackle American football.
    • Flag football — non-tackle American football, like touch football using a token to indicate a tackle.

• Canadian football — called simply “football” in Canada.
  • Canadian flag football — non-tackle Canadian football.

(Australian rules football was based partly on Rugby football, and partly on several other codes of football.)

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