63 HealthKit Workout Sport Constants

This is HealthKit's sports catalog: 63 workout activity constants that Apple files under eleven of its own groups. Team sports, Individual sports, Racket sports, Studio activities, Martial arts, Outdoor activities, Snow and ice sports, Water activities, Multisport activities, Other activities, and Deprecated activity types. All 63 are workoutActivity constants, so none carries a unit, an aggregation style or a value of its own. Every constant named below is read out of this site's HealthKit identifier dataset, which was parsed from Apple's developer documentation on 2026-08-28.

49 of the 63 shipped with iOS 8.0, so most of the catalog is the original list with newer entries bolted on. Six came in 10.0: barre, pilates, kickboxing, crossCountrySkiing, downhillSkiing and snowboarding. taiChi followed in 11.0 and discSports in 13.0, documented as covering Ultimate and Disc Golf. iOS 14.0 brought three, pickleball, cardioDance and socialDance. iOS 16.0 brought two, and 17.0 brought underwaterDiving, the newest constant here.

Those two from iOS 16.0 are the multisport pair. swimBikeRun is the triathlon constant, and at 41 words of discussion it is the second best documented member of the group, behind swimming at 45. transition is its companion, documented as the transition time between activities in a multisport workout. They only make sense together: if you record a triathlon and the time between legs belongs nowhere, transition is the value it belongs to.

A large slice of the catalog is umbrella constants that swallow several sports each, and Apple's abstracts say so outright. skatingSports covers ice skating, speed skating, inline skating and skateboarding. snowSports covers sledding, snowmobiling and building a snowman. surfingSports covers surfing, kite surfing and wind surfing. paddleSports covers canoeing, kayaking, outrigger paddling and stand-up paddle boarding. hockey covers ice hockey and field hockey. equestrianSports covers polo, horse racing and horse riding. trackAndField covers shot put, javelin and pole vaulting. play covers tag, dodgeball, hopscotch, tetherball and playing on a jungle gym. mindAndBody covers walking meditation, Gyrotonic exercise and Qigong.

Elsewhere Apple is granular to the point of being generous. Racket sports get six constants of their own: badminton, pickleball, racquetball, squash, tableTennis and tennis. Snow gets crossCountrySkiing, downhillSkiing and snowboarding on top of the snowSports umbrella, so a ski session has two defensible labels and only one of them is specific. The team sports are americanFootball, australianFootball, baseball, basketball, cricket, handball, lacrosse, rugby, soccer, softball and volleyball. The rest of the named singles include archery, bowling, boxing, climbing, curling, fencing, fishing, golf, gymnastics, hiking, hunting, martialArts, rowing, sailing, swimming, waterFitness, waterPolo, wrestling and yoga.

Three constants sit in Apple's Deprecated activity types group: dance, danceInspiredTraining and mixedMetabolicCardioTraining, all from iOS 8.0. The abstract for danceInspiredTraining names Pilates, Barre and Feldenkrais, and pilates and barre have been separate constants since iOS 10.0, with cardioDance and socialDance arriving in 14.0. Apple shipped narrower replacements and left the originals in place.

other closes the catalog, and it is deliberate rather than accidental: Apple documents it as the constant for a workout that does not match any of the other workout activity types.

None of the 63 has a verified Android counterpart in our cross-platform matrix, so treat the catalog as Apple-only until verified. If you also ingest sessions from wearables or an aggregator, normalising activity names across sources is the work that actually eats the sprint, and the HealthKit and Health Connect comparison is where the two platforms' models diverge. For reading and permissions, start with the HealthKit integration guide.