In just a few short years, Las Vegas has become a major sports capital. From hosting the Super Bowl at Allegiant Stadium to our Vegas Golden Knights winning the Stanley Cup and the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces making history in consecutive championship wins, it’s safe to say that Las Vegas is all-in on sports.

And if you’re all-in on learning a new sport, Las Vegas is a great place to try that now, too. Over the years, the city has welcomed facilities and attractions that teach visitors how to curl, how to roller-skate, how to play golf better, and how to drive a fancy car. Here’s where to turn for a few new skills.

Exotics Racing

Have you ever wanted to drive a fancy race car on a racetrack, Ricky Bobby style? With Exotics Racing, which operates out of the SpeedVegas Motorsports park located approximately 15 min South of the Las Vegas Strip, you can. The company offers a fleet of exotic cars including Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches, Aston Martins, and more. Visitors can drive the vehicles five laps around a 1.3-mile racetrack with ten turns. The course includes a high-speed banked bowl where visitors can hit speeds of 115 mph and higher. 

 

CurlVegas

If you’ve ever watched the Winter Olympics, you’ve probably seen curling on TV; the sport is like a larger version of shufflepuck on ice, only with big stones instead of pucks. CurlVegas, located on the Henderson side of Harry Reid International Airport, offers regular lessons to familiarize newcomers. Lessons include instruction in form, as well as coaching on how to sweep the ice for tactical advantage. The facility also runs several leagues, as well as tournaments, which are called bonspiels. After you throw, save time for a drink or two in a small on-site pub called The Warm Room. The official curling term for post-play cocktails: boomstacking.

Fresa’s Skate Shop

Fresa’s, an El Salvadorian-owned roller-skate, in-line skate and skateboard shop in the Arts District, is home to the only indoor half-pipe in Las Vegas. The place opened in 2022 to support the local roller-skating and in-line skating communities, both of which have a huge following in Downtown Las Vegas. Today, the store sells dozens of different skates, blades and boards, and it welcomes skaters to come and use that half-pipe for $15 per person per hour. Fresa’s rents skates and blades, too, and if you’re really kind, you might even be able to talk one of the staffers into giving you an impromptu lesson.

Five Iron Golf

Golf experiences are all the rage in Las Vegas these days, and that category includes virtual golf. At Five Iron Golf inside AREA15, state-of-the-art Trackman technology and high-speed cameras combine to create a golf simulator that is almost exactly like the real thing. One of the benefits of playing here: Players can choose from dozens of PGA Tour venues, as well as different game environments that feel more like a video game. Each bay has a tee box and a rack of clubs, and guests can bring their own clubs, too. There’s also full bar service to keep everyone, ahem, hydrated throughout the session.