So you want to become the next Georges Laraque but don’t want to lace up leather skates? Or, become the next Tony Gonzalez but hate the idea of tossing around a pigskin made of actual skin? You’re in luck! Our compassionate lifestyle is no bar to getting rough with the team. Check it out… (and many thanks to the Vegetarian Resource Group for their online list that got this one started!)

Ballet
Cynthia King Dance Studio offers vegan ballet shoes at cynthiakingdance.com.

Balls
Fair Trade Sports sells soccer balls, footballs, basketballs, rugby balls, volleyballs at fairtradesports.com. All of their after-tax profits go to charity.

Baseball
Carpenter Trading Company offers custom-made vegan gloves at carpentertrade.com.
Heartland Products, Ltd. sells baseball gloves for kids and adults; call (515) 332-3087.

Bowling
Dexter Shoes offers some vegan bowling shoes at dextershoes.com.

Boxing and Martial Arts
Super Soft Training Gloves (boxing) are vegan and can be found at ringside.com.
Pick up High Performance Hook & Loop Training Gloves (boxing) from everlast.com.
There’s a selection of synthetic training and fighting MMA gloves at ufcstore.seenon.com.
A selection of vegan boxing and UFC gloves, headgear and shinnies is available at combatsports.com.
Thai pads are available at amazon.com.

Cycling
Aerostich Rider Wearhouse offers vegan riding gloves at aerostich.com.
SiDi uses only synthetic materials in their cycling shoes; find out where they’re sold at sidisport.com.

Hiking
All Garmont boots are vegan and available at garmontusa.com.
(And check out this helpful review of vegan hiking boots.)

Hockey
Find a selection of vegan skates at lowpriceskates.com and skates.com.

Ice Skating
Bauer Pro Shop sells many non-leather Bauer hockey skates at bauer.hockeygiant.com.
L.L. Bean offers vegan skates for children at llbean.com.

Motorcycling
Cycleport offers synthetic motorcycle apparel at motoport.com.
Motoliberty sells several styles of non-leather motorcycle jackets at motoliberty.com.
SiDi has several varieties of non-leather motorcycle shoes; find out where they’re sold at sidisport.com.

Rock Climbing
Evolve Sports and Design sells a number of vegan rock climbing shoes at evolvesports.com.

Running
Check out the vegan shoe section of Zappos.com.

Skateboarding
Vans carries Geoff Rowley’s vegan skateboarding shoes for adults and children at vans.com.
Also, check out the vegan shoe section of Zappos.com.

Snowboarding
Burton Snowboards offers nonleather snow boots at www.burton.com.
Sole Technology sells several non-leather snow boots aqt www.thirtytwo.com.

Weight Lifting
NewGrip offers a neoprene weight lifting glove at newgrip.com.

Go team veg!

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