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Abseiling
Abseiling is the process of descending a rope under control. It is used in rock climbing, mountaineering, and caving to descend cliffs or slopes too steep to walk
down.
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Aerobatics
Aerobatics is the demonstration of flying manoeuvres for training, recreation or entertainment. Many manoeuvres involve rotations, looping
and yawing and a combination of movements.
Some fly purely for recreation while a few hundred worldwide choose to
compete in aerobatic competitions.
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Air
Racing
This
is the sport of racing small aircraft. The
first event in air racing history was held in 1909 in Reims France and was
called the Grand Week of Champagne. It
was attended by the top pilots, plane makers, celebrities and royalty of the
day. The premier event, the James Gordon
Bennett Trophy, was won by Glenn Curtiss,
who beat the second place finisher by five seconds. Curtiss was named
"Champion Air Racer of the World".
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Archery
Archery is the practice of using a bow to shoot arrows.
Archery has historically been used in hunting combat and has become a precision sport
where sportspeople aim to hit a specific target.
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Ballooning
This involves traveling through the air / sky in
a basket attached to a hot air / gas balloon.
As a concept, it is the simplest type of flying machine and there is no
way to control the balloons direction other than making the balloon rise or
sink to find favorable wind directions.
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BASE jumping
This involves jumping from fixed objects using
an unopened parachute or wing-suit and parachute at the time of the jump. BASE stands for Building, Antenna, Span,
Earth and relates to the types of objects from which jumps can be made.
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BMX
BMX (Bicycle Motocross) is a form of cycling on specially designed bicycles
which usually have 16 to 24-inch wheels (the norm being the 20-inch wheel). The
sport includes racing on earthen tracks, known as BMX racing, as well as the performance of
tricks on the bikes, called Freestyle BMX.
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Boxing
Boxing is a combat sport in which two people fight each
other with their fists.
Boxing normally lasts for 12 1-3 minute rounds and most boxers wear
gloves and possibly protective headwear.
A person wins by knocking their opponent out, injuring them so they cannot
continue or based on the judges/referees decision after 12 rounds.
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Bungee jumping
This involves
jumping from a tall structure while connected to a large rubber cord. When the person jumps, the cord stretches to absorb the energy of the
fall, then the jumper flies upwards again as the cord snaps back. The jumper
goes up and down until all of the energy is used.
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Canoeing
Canoeing is the activity of paddling
a canoe (small narrow boat). It usually
refers exclusively to using a paddle to propel a canoe
with only human muscle power.
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Canyoning /
Canyoneering
Canyoning is moving through canyons requiring technical descents using a variety of
techniques including: walking, scrambling, climbing, jumping, abseiling, and/or swimming.
It is frequently done in remote and rugged settings and often requires navigational, route-finding and other
wilderness travel skills.
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Caving
Caving, also called spelunking, is the recreational sport
of exploring caves. The challenges of the sport depend
on the cave being visited, but often include the negotiation of pitches,
squeezes, and water (though actual cave diving is a separate sub-specialty
undertaken only by very few cavers). Climbing or crawling
is often necessary, and ropes are used extensively for safety of
the negotiation of particularly steep or slippery passages.
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Coasteering
Coasteering is moving along the tidal zone of a rocky coastline
on foot or by swimming, without the aid of boats, surf boards or other craft. Coasteering may include: swimming, climbing,
jumping and diving. Coasteering does not
include ropes for climbing and always involves getting wet.
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Clay Pigeon Shooting
Clay pigeon shooting, formally known as Inanimate Bird Shooting, is the art of shooting at
special flying targets, known as clay pigeons or clay targets, with a shotgun.
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Cliff Jumping
This is when a person jumps
from a high platform, for example a bridge or actual cliff, into a river, lake
or ocean.
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Deep Sea Fishing
Deep Sea Fishing is fishing in the deepest parts of
the sea! Fishing is the activity of
catching fish Many companies offer organised
deep sea fishing trips. and may include netting, trapping,
angling and gathering. It is now a professional sport and recreational
pastime.
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Dragon
boating
A
dragon boat is a very long and
narrow human-powered
boat
used in the team paddling sport or dragon boat racing which originated in China. For racing events, dragon boats are always rigged with
decorative Chinese dragon
heads and tails and are required to carry a large drum aboard.
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Dune
Buggying
Dune
buggying involves a dune buggy. This is a recreational vehicle with large wheels,
and wide tires, designed for use on sand dunes
or beaches. The design is usually a modified
vehicle with a modified engine mounted on an open chassis to lighten the vehicle and increase
the power making it considerably faster.
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Endurance Horse Riding
Endurance riding is
controlled long distance racing. Most races are 80 – 160 km over one day,
although shorter races over different days are popular too. Although rules vary worldwide. The most popular
breed for this type of racing is the Arabian because of its stamina and natural
endurance.
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Extreme Ironing
This is the latest danger sport that combines
the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well
pressed shirt! No, seriously!
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Free running
Free runners use the
urban and rural
areas to perform movements through its structures focused on freedom
and beauty. It incorporates efficient movements from Parkour, adds aesthetic vaults and other acrobatics, such as tricking and street stunts to create an athletic and
aesthetically pleasing way of moving.
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Gliding
Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive sport
in which pilots fly un-powered aircraft
known as gliders or sailplanes. While many glider
pilots merely enjoy the sense of achievement, some competitive pilots fly in
races around pre-defined courses. These competitions
test the pilots' abilities to make best use of local weather conditions as well
as their flying skills. Local and national competitions are organized in many
countries and there are also biennial World
Gliding Championships.
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Hang gliding
Hang gliding is an air sport in
which a pilot flies a light and foot-launched aircraft which has no motor, called
a hang glider. Pilots usually control
the aircraft by shifting body weight, but other devices, including modern aircraft
flight control systems, may be used. The pilot wears a harness and
is hung beneath a lifting wing by flexible straps.
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Jet Skiing
Jet Ski is Kawasaki’s brand name for a personal watercraft; these are also
made by Yamaha and Honda and called a Waveblaster and Superjet
respectively. Competitions in the sport
involve doing various tricks and are judged on the quality and skills involved
in the routine.
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In-Line Skating/Rollerblading
Inline skates usually have 4 or 5 wheels
in a single line with a heel stop. Inline skating is often done on the road,
sidewalk/pavement, street furnishings like
fences and steps, and on special tracks and areas.
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Kayaking
Kayaking is the use of a kayak
for moving across water. A kayak
is a small human-powered boat. It typically has a
covered deck, and a cockpit covered by a spraydeck. It is propelled by a
double-bladed paddle by a sitting paddler.
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Kitesurfing / Kiteboarding
This uses a power kite to pull a rider through the
water on a small surfboard / kiteboard
(which is like a wakeboard). Kiteboarding is normally freestyle riding
where kitesurfing is wave riding. Each type requires a different type of board
and kite.
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Kneeboarding
Kneeboarding is a
discipline of surfing where the rider paddles on his
belly into a wave on a kneeboard,
then rides the wave face typically on both knees.
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Motocross
Motocross is a motorcycle sport held on
enclosed off road
circuits. The name motocross is a combination of the words motorcycle and cross
country. It often takes place on wet and
muddy dirt tracks.
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Mountain biking
Mountain biking
entails the sport of riding specially equipped mountain
or hybrid bikes off-road and over rough terrain. The
bikes have wide tyres, large frame tubing and shock absorbers to make them
durable and able to perform in rough terrain.
There are 4 types of mountain biking: downhill, cross country, freeride
and street riding.
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Mountaineering
Mountaineering includes walking, hiking, trekking and climbing up mountains.
It can consist of rock-craft, snow-craft and skiing, depending on
whether the route chosen is over rock, snow
or ice. All require great athletic and technical ability,
and experience is also very important.
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Off-Roading / 4 x 4
Off-Roading is a
term for driving a specialized vehicle on unpaved roads, such as sand,
gravel, riverbeds, mud,
snow,
rocks and other natural terrain.
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Paintball
This is where players take other players out
of the game by hitting them with paint filled ball shot from a gun using compressed
air or carbon dioxide to fire the balls. It can also involve opposing team's
trying to complete another objective, such as retrieving a flag or eliminating
a specific player.
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Parachuting / Skydiving
Parachuting or Skydiving is the act of jumping from
a high place, usually an airplane and safely returning to the ground with the aid of a parachute. Skydiving
normally occurs at higher heights and has longer freefall times than
parachuting.
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Paragliding
Paragliding
is a recreational and competitive flying sport.
A paraglider is a free-flying, foot launched aircraft. The pilot sits in a harness suspended below a
fabric wing, whose shape is formed by the pressure of air entering vents in the
front page of the wing.
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Parascending
Parascending (also known as
Parasailing), is where a person is towed behind a boat while attached to
a specially design parachute, known as a parasail. The boat then drives off,
carrying the person into the air.
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Parkour
Parkour is the activity
of moving from one point to another as efficiently and quickly as possible,
using the abilities of the human body. It is meant to help one overcome obstacles,
such as branches, rocks, rails and concrete walls. It can be practiced in both rural
and urban areas. It is similar to free running.
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Polo
Polo is a team sport played
outdoors on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Riders
score by driving a white wooden or plastic ball into the opposing team's goal using a
long-handled mallet. The traditional sport of polo is played outdoors, and each
polo team consists of four riders and their mounts.
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Powerboating
Power boating describes activities
performed in a motorised boat.
Generally a power boat has a high power to weight
ratio and a hull design providing higher speeds and improved
handling. Power boats are often used recreationally including waterskiing, wakeboarding and other similar activities.
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Quad
biking
Quad biking is the sport of using a quad bike. A quad bike is a motorbike style body with
four wheels that is straddled by the rider.
Riders use the bike as an all terrain vehicle on open country or for
driving around a course track.
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Rally Driving
This uses specially modified cars and takes place
on public or private roads. This motorsport takes
place in different stages where a driver and co-driver take the car from one
point to another. The winner is the team
that has completed the most amount of stages in the quickest time.
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Road / Endurance Cycling
Road cycling is the most common
form of cycling. It takes place primarily on paved
surfaces and includes recreational, racing and utility cycling. Races/competitions can often involves
hundreds of cyclists with the most famous race being the Tour De France.
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Rock climbing
Rock-climbers climb
up or across natural rock
formations or man-made rock walls with
the goal of reaching the summit. Rock climbing
requires the use of the climber's hands to provide balance and to hold his or
her own weight.
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Sandboarding
Sandboarding is a recreational activity similar to snowboarding that takes place on sand dunessnow-covered
hills.
For some, it involves riding across or down a dune while standing with both
feet strapped to a board, while others use a board with no bindings. The latter
method is considered much more dangerous than the former.
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Skateboarding
Skateboarding involves riding on and
performing tricks with a skateboard. A skateboard is a four wheeled platform on
which a person stands and moves forward by pushing with one foot while the
other remains on the board. A person who
skateboards is a skateboarder or
skater.
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Sailing/Yachting
Sailing
is the art of controlling a boat by managing the force of the wind on the sails
in order to change the boat’s direction and speed. Developing your skills in sailing requires an
understanding of sailboats and different wind and sea conditions. Today most people enjoy sailing as a
recreational activity.
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Scuba diving
Scuba diving is swimming underwater while using a scuba set
to provide air to the swimmer. This
means the scuba diver is able to stay underwater for long periods of time. The swimmer will also wear a mask to enable
him/her to see under water and fins/flippers to enable them to swim with less
effort.
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Shooting
Shooting refers to the sport of rifle and
handgun precision marksmanship. Most often, stationary paper targets or
reactive metal targets are used. There
are many different types of rifle and handgun shooting sports using a mixture
of outdoor and indoor ranges.
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Skiing
Skiing is the sport of travelling across snow on a set of
skis. Skis are used in conjunctions with
boots that connect to the ski with use of a
binding. There are 2 types of skiing
style: Nordic and Alpine with most people taking part in downhill or cross
country skiing as a sport.
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Skimboarding
Skimboarding starts with the skimboarder on the
beach. As the wave approaches the person
runs towards the water throwing the skimboard onto the water and jumping onto
the board. It is based on the principle
of hydroplaning and the boards are much thinner than surfboards because they do
not require as much buoyancy.
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Skywalking
Skywalking or
tightrope walking involves walking
along a thin wire or rope
usually at a great height. Skywalkers sometimes
use balancing poles and may perform the feat without a safety net for effect.
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Snowboarding
This involves going down a snow-covered
slope on a snowboard attached to your feet using a
special boot set into a mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was
inspired by surfing and skateboarding, and the sport shares
superficial similarities with skiing. It was developed
in the United States
in the 1960s and the 1970s and became a Winter Olympic
Sport in 1998.
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Surfing
Surfing is a surface water sport
in which a person is carried along the face of a breaking wave, most
commonly using a surfboard, kneeboard
or body/boogie board. The 3 main types
of surfing include long boarding, short boarding or in-tow surfing where a
surfer is taken out to much larger waves by a jet ski.
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Wakeboarding
Wakeboarding is a
surface water sport which involves riding a wakeboard over the surface of a body
of water behind a boat. It was developed from a combination of water skiing, snowboarding and surfing techniques.
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Windsurfing
Windsurfing is a surface water sport
using a windsurf board, also commonly called a sailboard, usually two to five
meters long and powered by a single sail.
Unlike a rudder-steered sailboat, a windsurfer
is steered by the tilting and rotating of the mast and sail as well as tilting and carving
the board.
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Whitewater Rafting
Whitewater rafting uses a
raft
to navigate a river or other bodies of water. This is
usually done on whitewater or
different degrees of rough water, in order to thrill and excite the raft
passengers. The development of this activity as a leisure sport has become
popular since the mid 1970s.
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Zapcats
A zapcat is an inflatable boat with an engine
developed from life saving surf rescue craft.
They can deal with a variety of conditions. They have a catamaran hull, are stable,
highly versatile, can travel at high speed and can be deflated and transported
in an estate car.
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Zorbing / Sphereing
This is the practice of people travelling down a gentle slope in a sphere, made of transparent plastic. Most spheres are meant for 1 person, but some
hold 2 or 3. The longer runs are
approximately half a mile in length.
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