List of water sports
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Water sports or aquatic sports are sports activities conducted on waterbodies and can be categorized according to the degree of immersion by the participants.
On the water
[edit]- Boat racing, the use of powerboats to participate in races
- Boating, the use of boats for personal recreation
- Bodyboarding similar to surfing, it involves catching a wave aboard a floating board — only this platform is made primarily of foam.
- Cable skiing, similar to wake boarding but with cables for artificial maneuvering
- Canoe polo combines boating and ball-handling skills with a contact team game, where tactics and positional play are as important as the speed and fitness of the individual athletes.
- Canoeing is an activity which involves paddling a canoe with a single-bladed paddle. Most present-day canoeing is done as or as a part of a sport or recreational activity.
- Dragon boat racing, teams of 20 paddlers racing the ancient dragon boat
- Fishing, the recreation and sport of catching fish
- Flyboard is a brand of hydroflighting device that supplies propulsion to drive the Flyboard into the air to perform a sport known as hydroflying.
- Jet Skiing is performed with a recreational watercraft that the rider sits or stands on, rather than sits inside of, as in a boat.
- Kayaking is the use of a kayak for moving across water
- Kiteboating is the act of using a kite rig as a power source to propel a boat
- Kneeboarding is an aquatic sport where the participant is towed on a buoyant, convex, and hydrodynamically shaped board at a planing speed, most often behind a motorboat.
- Paddleboarding, where a person uses a large surfboard and paddle to surf on flat water or waves
- Parasailing, where a person is towed behind a vehicle (usually a boat) while attached to a parachute
- Picigin is a traditional Croatian ball game that is played on the beach. It is an amateur sport played in shallow water, consisting of players keeping a small ball from touching the water.
- Rafting is a recreational outdoor activities that use an inflatable raft to navigate a river or other body of water
- River trekking, a combination of trekking and climbing and sometimes swimming along the river
- Rowing, a sport that involves propelling a boat (racing shell) on water, using oars
- Sailing is the practice of navigating a sail-powered craft on water, ice, or land
- Sit-down hydrofoiling is riding on the water with a hydrofoil attached to a ski.
- Skimboarding is a sport where people use a wooden board to slide fast on water.
- Stone skipping, is a sport where people compete for the number of times and length that they can skip a stone on the water's surface.
- Surfing, a sport where an individual uses a board to stand up and ride on the face of a wave.
- Wakeboarding, a sport where an individual is attached to a board via bindings and then holds a handle to be towed across the water while riding sideways.
- Wakeskating, a sport where the rider stands on a board and is towed across the water performing maneuvers similar to those seen in skateboarding.
- Wakesurfing, a sport where the individual surfs on the wake created by a boat without holding onto the handle.
- Water skiing, a sport where an individual holds onto a rope and handle while being towed across the water while riding one or two water skis.
- White water rafting, rafting on various classes of river rapids
- Windsurfing, is a wind-propelled water sport that is a combination of sailing and surfing.
- Windfoiling, is the hydrofoiling variant of windsurfing. It uses a hydrofoil that lifts the board above the water.
- Wing foiling is a sport where an individual holds a lightweight wing on a surfboard with a hydrofoil.
- Yachting is the use of recreational boats and ships called yachts, for racing or cruising
In the water
[edit]- Aquajogging, is a cross-training and rehabilitation method using low-impact resistance training. It is a way to train without impacting joints. Participants wear a flotation device and move in a running motion in the deep end of a pool. Aside from a pool, the equipment can include a flotation belt and weights.
- Artistic or synchronized swimming consists of swimmers performing a synchronized routine of elaborate moves in the water, accompanied by music.
- Diving, the sport of jumping off springboards or platforms into water
- Finswimming is a sport similar to traditional swimming using fins, monofin, snorkel, and other specific devices
- Modern pentathlon includes épée fencing, pistol shooting, swimming, a show jumping course on horseback, and cross country running
- Rescue swimming is swimming to rescue other swimmers
- Swimming, including pool swimming and open water swimming
- Synchronized diving, Two divers form a team and perform dives simultaneously. The dives are identical.
- Triathlon, a multi-sport event involving the completion of three continuous and sequential endurance events, usually a combination of swimming, cycling, and running
- Water aerobics is aerobics in the water.
- Water basketball, mixes the rules of basketball and water polo, played in a swimming pool. Teams of five players must shoot at the goal with a ball within a specific time after gaining possession.
- Water polo is a sport of two teams played in the water with a ball.
- Water volleyball
Under water
[edit]Recreational diving
[edit]- Cave diving
- Deep diving
- Freediving
- Ice diving
- Mermaiding
- Spearfishing
- Underwater archaeology, particularly activity involving wreck diving
- Underwater photography, including underwater videography, is photography done underwater. Numerous contests worldwide are arranged every year. Digital cameras have revolutionized how many divers participate.
- Underwater videography
Underwater sports
[edit]- Aquathlon (underwater wrestling)
- Finswimming, some events are practiced completely underwater
- Freediving
- Snorkeling is the practice of swimming at the surface (typically of the sea) being equipped with a mask, fins, and a short tube called a snorkel.
- Spearfishing
- Sport diving (sport)
- Underwater football
- Underwater hockey is a game played underwater which has some similarities to hockey. Two teams of players use short wooden curved sticks to move a heavy puck across the pool bottom to the opponents' goal.
- Underwater ice hockey
- Underwater orienteering
- Underwater photography (sport)
- Underwater rugby is a game played underwater which has some similarities to rugby football. Two teams try to score goals by sending a slightly negatively buoyant ball into the opponents' goal placed on the bottom of the pool.
- Underwater target shooting
See also
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