Swiss national sports
The Swiss national sports (German: Nationalspiele der Schweiz; French: jeux nationaux) are three traditional sports of Switzerland: Schwingen (Swiss wrestling), Steinstossen (stone throwing), and—in a broader sense—Hornussen. Swiss wrestling and stone throwing were included in the program of the 1855 Federal Gymnastics Festival in Lausanne under the heading of "national gymnastics" (Nationalturnen), in contrast to the German gymnastics codified by Friedrich Ludwig Jahn; these indigenous disciplines were considered particularly suited to the Swiss people.