The Inuit have always enjoyed a variety of games and sports. Skills developed by these games were often those necessary for everyday survival in the harsh environment. Thus, the games concern physical strength, agility, and endurance. Many Inuit games are traditional and require no equipment. Some traditional games may have been learned in Asia before the Inuit migrated across the Bering Strait (c. 2000 B.C.), while others were undoubtedly learned after migration, through contact with southern Aboriginal peoples who had migrated at an earlier time from Asia into the Western hemisphere.

The game 'Arctic Hunt' is a version of the standard European row game known as Three Man Morris and in North America known as Tic-Tac-Toe. The board is brownish leather with rounded corners. Nine squares are stencilled on the surface in black. Each square features a stylized design of an animal reminiscent of various Inuit stonecuts. A leather thong is included in the box, to be used to tie the board together when it is rolled up. Six pieces of antler horn are included for use as playing pieces. On three pieces, animal designs are stencilled in black, and on the other three, similar designs are stencilled in red. Players each place one of the pieces anywhere on the board, alternating their actions. The winner is the one who first gets their three pieces in a vertical, diagonal, or horizontal row.

"Blanket Toss" is a game often played at festivals and other Inuit celebrations and is reminiscent of non-Inuit contests that use a trampoline. The game is often played in rounds - the winner is the player who bounces the highest.

The game "Bone Puzzle" appears to be a cross between a "jigsaw puzzle" and "fishing". The bag is made of caribou leather and is 21.5cm long x 16.5cm wide. Its texture is rough. It is wider at the bottom than at the top, and tapers to only 11cm at the neck. The sides are hand sewn. The thong which binds the bag is 43cm long and attached to one of the side seams. Inside the bag are approximately 41 animal bones - some from seals - some from birds. Along with the bones is another thong 63cm long x .5cm wide, tied into a noose at one end.
"This game consists of a bag of mixed bones most common of which are the tarsal bones of the seal flippers, though the tarsal bones of birds and polar bears may be included. The game has several variations, one of which is to form small heaps of bones, one for as many players as are participating. At a given signal the players lay out the bones in rows and endeavour to reconstruct the skeletal anatomy of the seal's hind flipper. Chance and the zoological skill of the player in compiling the first seal's flipper decide the winner. Tarsal bones other than seal bones are permitted, however, the game is complicated by disallowing the use of certain bones"

There also appear to have been games like Tug-o-War, Inuit Dart game is played quite differently than pub and tavern dart games. Within the traditional tool kit of the Inuit hunter were a number of devices used for drilling holes. One was the Niortut - a shaft made from caribou antler with a point made of caribou or polar bear bone, but later the point was made from a piece of metal such as a nail. The top end of the shaft was tapered to fit into a bone "mouth piece" - the Kingmiark. A similar device was the Puttu - used for putting holes into a hard object. A third device, the Kikiadlaksit, was used especially to drill holes into the splicings and bindings of a kayak frame.

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