# World record > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/World_record > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/World_record.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_record > Source revision: 1331217186 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Best recorded performance of a specific skill or activity For other uses, see [World Record (disambiguation)](/source/World_Record_(disambiguation)). "World best" redirects here. For the album by Patoranking, see [World Best (album)](/source/World_Best_(album)). This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "World record" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message) A **world record** is usually the best global and most important performance that is ever recorded and officially verified in a specific [skill](/source/Skill), [sport](/source/Sport), or other kind of activity. The book *[Guinness World Records](/source/Guinness_World_Records)* and other world records organizations collates and publishes notable records of many. ## Terminology In the United States, the form **World's Record** was formerly more common. The term **The World's Best** was also briefly in use. The latter term is still used in [athletics](/source/Athletics_(sport)) events, including [track and field](/source/Track_and_field) and [road running](/source/Road_running) to describe good and bad performances that are not recognized as an official world record: either because it is not an event where [World Athletics](/source/World_Athletics) tracks the record (e.g. the 150 m run or individual events in a [decathlon](/source/Decathlon)), or because it does not fulfill other rigorous criteria of an otherwise qualifying event (e.g. the [Great North Run](/source/Great_North_Run) half-marathon, which has an excessive downhill gradient). The term is also used in video game [speedrunning](/source/Speedrunning) for the fastest achieved time in the game and category.[1] ## Sports Main category: [Sports world records](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sports_world_records) Some sports have world records recognised by their respective [sports governing bodies](/source/Sports_governing_body): - [List of One Day International cricket records](/source/List_of_One_Day_International_cricket_records) - [List of world records in athletics](/source/List_of_world_records_in_athletics) - [List of junior world records in athletics](/source/List_of_junior_world_records_in_athletics) - [List of world records in masters athletics](/source/List_of_world_records_in_masters_athletics) - [List of world youth bests in athletics](/source/List_of_world_youth_bests_in_athletics) - [List of IPC world records in athletics](/source/List_of_IPC_world_records_in_athletics) - [List of world records in canoeing](/source/List_of_world_records_in_canoeing) - [List of world records in chess](/source/List_of_world_records_in_chess) - [List of cycling records](/source/List_of_cycling_records) - [List of world records in track cycling](/source/List_of_world_records_in_track_cycling) - [List of world records in finswimming](/source/List_of_world_records_in_finswimming) - [List of world records in juggling](/source/Juggling_world_records) - [List of world records in rowing](/source/List_of_world_records_in_rowing) - [List of world records in speed skating](/source/List_of_world_records_in_speed_skating) - [List of world records in swimming](/source/List_of_world_records_in_swimming) - [List of IPC world records in swimming](/source/List_of_IPC_world_records_in_swimming) - [List of world records in Olympic weightlifting](/source/List_of_world_records_in_Olympic_weightlifting) ## See also - [Lists of extreme points](/source/Lists_of_extreme_points) ## References Wikinews has news related to: ***[World records](https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Category:World_records)*** Look up ***[world record](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Search/world_record)*** in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikimedia Commons has media related to [World records](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:World_records). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Speedrunning Glossary"](https://www.speedrunslive.com/faq/glossary/). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20210212095012/https://www.speedrunslive.com/faq/glossary/) from the original on 12 February 2021. 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