Includes bibliographical references (p. 543-579) and index.

Aalborg Youth Games -- Academic Olympia -- African Games -- African Francophone Games for the Handicapped -- All-Africa University Games -- Alps-Adriatic Summer Youth Games -- Alps-Adriatic Winter Youth Games -- Arab Games -- Arab Games for the Handicapped -- Arab School Games -- Arafura Games -- Arctic Winter Games -- Asia Pacific Games for the Deaf -- Asia Pacific Masters Games -- Asian Games -- Asian Sports Festival -- Asian Winter Games -- Ataturk Dam International Sports Festival -- Australasian Public Sector Games -- Australian Masters Games -- Australian Universities Games -- Baltic Games -- Baltic Sea Games -- Bolivarian Games -- Britain's Festival of Sport -- British Commonwealth Paraplegic Games -- Can-Am Police-Fire Games -- Canterbury Centennial Games -- CARIFTA Games -- Centennial Youth Games -- Central African Games -- Central American and Caribbean Games -- Central American and Caribbean University Games -- Central American Games -- Central Asian Games -- Commonwealth Games -- Commonwealth Youth Games -- Community/Friendship Games -- CUCSA Games -- Defi Sportif -- Dutch Commonwealth Games -- East African Military Games -- East African University Games -- East Asian Games -- Eastern European Transplant Games -- Euro Games -- European Heart/Lung Transplant Games -- European Maccabi Games -- European Special Olympics -- European Youth Olympic Days -- Far East and South Pacific Games for the Disabled -- Far East Championships -- Festival of the Empire Sports Meeting -- Firefighters World Games -- FISEC Games -- Francophone Games -- Friendship Games 84 -- Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO) -- Games of the Small Countries of Europe -- Gay Games -- Goodwill Games -- Gorge Games -- Gravity Games -- Hapoel Games -- Honda Masters Games -- Huntsman World Senior Games -- IBSA World Championships for the Blind -- Indian Ocean Island Games -- Inter-Allied Games -- International Electrical Engineering Students Sports Games -- International Firefighters Winter Games -- International Law Enforcement Games -- International Police Winter Games -- International School Children's Games -- International Senior Games -- International Women's Games -- Irelands' Scholar Athlete Games -- ISF Gymnasiade -- Island Games -- Islands Corporate Games -- JCC Maccabi Games -- Journalists World Games -- Latin American Games -- Maccabiade Winter Games -- Maccabiah Games -- Mediterranean Games -- Micronesian Games -- Middle East/Mediterranean Scholar Athlete Games -- Military World Games -- Muslim Student Games -- Muslim Women's Games -- New Zealand Games -- Nordic Games -- North American Indigenous Games -- Olympic Games -- Olympic Winter Games -- Pacific Ocean Games -- Pacific School Games -- Pan-American Games -- Pan-American Games for Patients with Asthma -- Pan-American Games for the Blind -- Pan-American Games for the Deaf -- Pan-American Maccabi Games -- Pan-American Medical Games -- Pan-American Wheelchair Games -- Pan-Armenian Games -- Paralympic Games -- Peace Arch Games -- Renaissance Games -- Robin Hood Games -- SCFA Summer Spartakiade -- SCFA Winter Spartakiade -- SELL Games (Summer) -- SELL Games (Winter) -- Socialist Olympics -- South American Games -- South Asian Federation Games -- South East Asian Games -- South Pacific Games -- South Pacific Mini Games -- Special Olympics -- Special Olympics Asia-Pacific Games -- Special Olympics Gulf Games -- Special Olympics Mediterranean Games -- Special Olympics Small Nations Games -- Special Olympics West African Games -- Special Olympics Winter World Games -- Stockholm Summer Games -- Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Games -- Tailteann Games -- UK & Ireland Corporate Games -- Victorian Corporate Games -- West African University Games -- West Asian Games -- Western Asiatic Games -- Windsor Classic Indoor Games -- Winter Australian Corporate Games -- Winter Games for the Disabled -- Winter International School Children's Games -- Winter Pan-American Games -- Winter Paralympic Games -- Winter World Corporate Games -- Winter World Games for the Deaf -- Winter World Transplant Games -- Winter World University Games -- Winter X Games -- World Air Games -- World Corporate Games -- World Dwarf Games -- World Equestrian Games -- World Ex-Service Wheelchair and Amputee Games -- World Games -- World Games for the Deaf -- World Masters Games -- World Medical Games -- World Nature Games -- World Peace Games/Jeux Mondiaux de le Paix -- World Police and Fire Games -- World Scholar Athlete Games -- World Transplant Games -- World University Games -- World Youth Games -- X Games -- Games by Year -- Games by Nation -- Games by Host City -- Largest Games by Number of Participants (Top 100) -- Largest Games by Number of Nations (Top 100) -- Largest Games by Number of Sports (Top 54) -- Other Games.

The Olympic Games, revived in 1896, are the most well-known international multisport gathering of our times, but hundreds of other multisport competitions based on the same model have been established. The Encyclopedia of International Games captures the histories of these games, many of them for the very first time. Included are major regional games such as the African, Asian, Arab, South Pacific, and Pan-American Games, and lesser-known competitions such as the Indian Occan Island Games, Arctic Winter Games, Island Games, and Games of the Small Countries of Europe. Games for specific populations or professions such as the North American Indigenous Games, Maccabiah Games, World Military Games, and World Police and Fire Games are featured. Dozens of entries cover the histories of games for disabled populations such as the Special Olympics, the Paralympics, and games for the blind. Entries provide (when available) the host city, nation and dates of the games, number of athletes, number and list of sports, number and list of nations, and medals tables.