List of water sports

A variety of water sports

In the water

• Artistic or Synchronised swimming consists of swimmers performing a synchronised routine of elaborate moves in the water, accompanied by music.
• 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. Equipment, aside from a pool, can include a flotation belt and weights.
• Diving, the sport of jumping off springboards or platforms into water
• Modern pentathlon includes épée fencing, pistol shooting, swimming, a show jumping course on horseback, and cross country running
• Rescue swimming is swimming with the goal 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 basketball, mixes the rules of basketball and water polo, played in a swimming pool. Teams of five players each must shoot at the goal with a ball within a certain time after gaining possession.
• Water aerobics is aerobics in the water.
• Water polo is a sport of two teams played in water with a ball.
• Water volleyball
• finswimming is a sport similar to traditional swimming using fins, monofin, snorkel and other specific devices

On the water

• Barefoot running is running on the beach without shoes
• Boating is the use of boats
• Boat racing is the use of powerboats to participate in races
• Bodyboarding is similar to surfing, but the board is smaller and the person (normally) lies down on the board
• Cable skiing is similar to wake boarding but with cables for artificial maneuvering
• 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.
• 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.
• Dragon boat racing teams of 20 paddlers racing
• Fishing is the recreation and sport of catching fish
• Flyboard, On a board connected by a long hose to a watercraft, water is forced under pressure to a pair of boots with jet nozzles underneath which provide thrust for the rider to fly up to 20 m (70 ft) in the air or to dive headlong through the water down as far as one is willing to go.
• Flowrider
• Jet Skiing
• Kayaking, A kayak is a low-to-the-water, canoe-like boat in which the paddler sits facing forward, legs in front, using a double-bladed paddle to pull front-to-back on one side and then the other in rotation.
• Kiteboating, is the act of using a kite rig as a power source to propel a boat.
• Kitesurfing on flat water using a kite for propulsion
• 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 a person is propelled on a surf style board using a long paddle
• Parasailing where a person is towed behind a vehicle (usually a boat) while attached to a parachute
• Picigin, kicking around a small ball on shallow waters.
• Rafting
• River trekking
• Rowing
• Sailing using the wind for propulsion
• Sit-down hydrofoiling is riding on the water with a hydrofoil attached to a ski
• Skimboarding is a boardsport in which a board is used to ride on an incoming wave
• Skurfing is where the participant "skurfs" behind a boat on a surfboard
• Standup paddleboarding, a type of surfing in which the surfer stands on their boards and uses a paddle to propel themselves in the water
• Surfing downhill on ocean waves or artificial waves in a wave pool
• Wakeboarding is similar to water skiing, but using only one board attached to the feet
• Wakeskating is similar to wakeboarding, but the board is not attached to the feet
• Wakesurfing is a mix between wakeboarding and surfing
• Waterskiing is using skis to slide over the water while being pulled by a boat or other device
• White water rafting
• Windsurfing on flat water using wind for propulsion in combination with sails
• Yachting sailing on yachts, daysailing, cruising or Yacht racing

Under water

Recreational diving

Main article: Recreational diving

• Cave diving
• Deep diving
• Freediving
• Ice diving
• Mermaiding
• Spearfishing
• Underwater archaeology, particularly activity involving wreck diving
• Underwater photography, including underwater videography, is photography done under water. Numerous contests worldwide are arranged every year. Digital cameras have revolutionized how many divers participate.
• Underwater videography

Underwater sports

Main article: Underwater sports

• Aquathlon (underwater wrestling)
• Finswimming some events are practiced completel underwater
• 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.
• Free-diving
• Sport diving (sport)
• Spearfishing
• 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

• Outdoor recreation
• Outline of canoeing and kayaking

And more outdoor sports

References

• Water Sports Dictionaries