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beach volleyball

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Summary

beach volleyball is a type of sport[1]. It draws 3,174 Wikipedia views per month (type of sport category, ranking #91 of 435).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: sports discipline[3]
  • Subclass of: volleyball[4], beach sports[5]
  • Commons category: Beach volleyball[6]
  • Country of origin: United States[7]
  • Time of discovery or invention: 1920[8]
  • Sport: volleyball[9]
  • Authority: Fédération Internationale de Volleyball[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Beach volleyball[11]
  • Commons gallery: Beach volleyball[12]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: sport=beachvolleyball[13]
  • Has characteristic: demonstration sport[14], Olympic sport[15]
  • Minimum number of players: 4[16]
  • Maximum number of players: 6[17]
  • Uses: beach volleyball venue[18], beach volleyball court[19], beach volleyball[20]
  • Practiced by: beach volleyball player[21]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22]
  • P14541: 46DD9A[23]
  • P14692: 116 BC[24]

Why It Matters

beach volleyball has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 56 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 26d ago · ならちゃん · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nhk one news topic id → E0000000535
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/54972|batch #54972]]"
  2. 6w ago · Rescq · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Süddeutsche zeitung topic id → Beachvolleyball
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Süddeutsche zeitung topic id: Beachvolleyball, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/213750801|Beachvolleyball (#213750801)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/716"
  3. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → 116 BC
    Fandom article id → volleyball:Beach_volleyball, world-sports-results:Beach_Volleyball
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  4. 13w ago · J 1982 · 2026-07-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Fandom article id → volleyball:Beach_volleyball, world-sports-results:Beach_Volleyball
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Fandom article id: volleyball:Beach_volleyball"
  5. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 46DD9A
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  6. 17w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002894-plazovy-volejbal
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0002894-plazovy-volejbal, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  7. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → type of sport, sports discipline
    Uses → beach volleyball venue, beach volleyball court, beach volleyball
    Country of origin → United States
    Sport → volleyball
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ Yso id: 16791, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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