Hands up! Head for these alternative athletic destinations during the World Cup

Don’t let the shin guard and cleats mafia scare you into believing soccer is everything.FIFA may’ve gifted our president a Peace Prize before it takes over our entire shared continent for this year’s World Cup (11 cities in the US alone!).But if we’re being honest, America will always prefer sports that are pro-hand.Probably because we ourselves are such a handful.

High five!So while “association football” will be kickin’ it all over North America in short order, you can still pack up your best althleisure and give these dexterous sports resorts a fair shake.Call it a palm spring.Tennis the menace wouldn’t begin to describe the Montrose at Beverly Hills‘ rooftop tennis/pickleball scene with all of those fuzzy green Dunlops bombing the West Hollywood streets below.By the grace of god, they have 10- to 12-foot fencing surrounding the courts to prevent that sort of carnage.

There’s also a bar up there; crisis averted (from $299 per night).Not sure if the Springboard Hospitality brand behind it is just trying to lure in Gen-X fans of ’90s-era Fox nighttime soaps, but its sister property, Le Parc at Melrose, sports the same roofer madness (from $299 per night).You don’t automatically think of water-sliding as a hand sport — but just look at your fingers after arising from a landing pool, pruned as raisins.This hydraulic haven is in sweltering Arizona, where it needs it most.

JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa‘s new $80 million property glow-up is now home to the 140,000-square-foot AquaRidge WaterPark.All the basic are here: pools, waterfalls, a grove.But let’s talk slides.

They have three.The first, sounding like a character out of “Hamnet” — Gullywasher — is “the only dual-person vertical wall tube slide at a resort west of the Mississippi.” The other two, the Drop and Little Eddy, are fine playing second- and third-fiddle.

But breathe easy: There is also an adults-only part of the park with Jacuzzis, fire ...