Volume-efficient team sports for a narrow environment

At the end of a recent movie, the hero wakes up in a space station which is probably only a few kilometers wide and generates gravity by rotating. In this station, kids are playing baseball.
It strikes me as implausible that baseball becomes a major sport in space stations because:

• Requires a large volume (~100m*100m*50m)
• At every one time, only ~2 players are running, the rest are walking or watching
• Efficiency: 250,000 m³/active player

In comparizon, basketball is about as much fun, and is much more efficient in terms of physical activity / volume:

• Small volume (~30m*20m*15m)
• At every one time, ~5 players are in full action
• Efficiency: 1,800 m³/active player

QUESTION: Pushing this reasoning to the extreme, what sports would be likely to be played in a space station where volume is scarce?

Additional requirements:

• Physical and healthy
• No virtual reality
• No treadmills
• Designed for team play
• Fun to play and watch (at least it can be imagined that most people would enjoy it)
• Not too sensible to pressure/temperature/gravity. The Space Olympics gather teams come from different stations with slightly different environments (no huge differences though, environment is rather similar to 2015 Ecuador).

Both existing sports and invented sports are OK, existing sports preferred.
Please try to calculate volume efficiency for each sport you suggest.

posted over 9 years ago

Nicolas Raoul‭

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