In this article we study various analytic aspects of interpolating sesqui-harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds where we mostly focus on the case of a spherical target. The latter are critical points of an energy functional that interpolates between the functionals for harmonic and biharmonic maps. In the case of a spherical target we will derive a conservation law and use it to show the smoothness of weak solutions. Moreover, we will obtain several classification results for interpolating sesqui-harmonic maps.Date: July 10, 2019. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 58E20; 31B30; 35B65. Key words and phrases. interpolating sesqui-harmonic maps; regularity of weak solutions; classification results.Applying Proposition 2.10, choosing λ = 4, p * = 4 and α = 1, we find.Applying Proposition 2.10 again we find by choosing p = 4 3 , α = 2 and λ = 4 that).Using Hölder's inequality we get the estimates |∆φ||∇φ| M 4 3 ,4 (R m ) ≤ ∆φ M 2,4 (R m ) ∇φ M 4,4 (R m ) , |∇φ| 3 M 4 3 ,4 (R m ) ≤ ∇φ 3 M 4,4 (R m ) and also ∇φ M 4 3 ,4 (R m )