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Aggressive Skating -- Aggressive inline skating is a form of inline skating, performed on specially designed inline skates with focus on sliding stances known as grind with a focus on new tricks, stunts and personal style. Participants often refer to the activity as "rollerblading", "blading", "skating" or "rolling". Vert or park as part of extreme sports and street skating or freekate in urban areas.
Barefoot Skiing -- Barefoot skiing is water skiing behind a motorboat without the use of water skis, commonly referred to as "barefooting". Barefooting requires the skier to travel at higher speeds than conventional water skiing (30-45mph).
Base Jumping -- BASE jumping, also sometimes written as B.A.S.E jumping, is an activity that employs an initially packed parachute to jump from fixed objects, as with paragliding. "B.A.S.E." is an acronym that stands for four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump: buildings, antennae, spans (bridge), and earth (cliff).
BMX Freestyle -- Freestyle BMX is a name for BMX stunt riding. It consists of five disciplines: "street," "park," "vert," "trails" or "dirt jumping," and "flatland."
Bodyboarding -- Bodyboarding is a surface water sport (sometimes called Boogieboarding, from the inventor Tom Morey, of the "Boogie Board".
Bouldering -- Bouldering is a style of rock climbing undertaken without a rope and normally limited to very short climbs over a crash pad (called a bouldering mat) so that a fall will not result in serious injury. It is typically practiced on large natural boulders or artificial boulders in gyms and outdoor urban areas.
Climbing -- Climbing is the activity of using ones hands and feet (or indeed any other part of the body) to ascend a steep object.
Drag Racing -- Drag racing is a competition in which vehicles compete to be the first to cross a set finish line, usually from a standing start, and in a straight line.
Extreme Ironing -- Extreme Ironing (or EI) is an extreme sport and a performance art in which people take an ironing board to a remote location and iron items of clothing.
Flowboard -- A flowboard is a variation on a skateboard, combining aspects of surfing, skating and snowboarding.
Freebording -- A Freebord is a type of specialist skateboard designed to closely simulate the behavior of a snowboard.
Freestyle Motocross -- Freestyle Motocross (also known as FMX) is a variation on the sport of motocross in which motorcycle riders attempt to impress judges with jumps and stunts.
Ghost Riding The Whip -- Ghost-riding, frequently used in the context of "ghost-riding the whip" (a "whip" being a vehicle) or simply ghostin`, is when a person puts a vehicle`s transmission in gear then exits the vehicle while it is still rolling to dance beside it or on the hood or roof.
Gliding -- Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sport in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to remain airborne. The word soaring is also used for the sport.
Hang Gliding -- Hang gliding is an air sport in which a pilot flies a light and unmotorized foot-launchable aircraft called a hang glider (also known as Delta plane or Deltaplane).
Ice Climbing -- Ice climbing, as the term indicates, is the activity of ascending inclined ice formations. Usually, ice climbing refers to roped and protected climbing of features such as icefalls, frozen waterfalls, and cliffs and rock slabs covered with ice refrozen from flows of water.
Kite Landboarding -- Kite landboarding also known as Land kiteboarding or flyboarding, is based on the ever-growing sport of Kitesurfing, where a rider on a surf-style board is pulled over water by a kite. Kite landboarding involves the use of a mountain board or landboard, which is essentially an oversized skateboard with large pneumatic wheels and foot-straps.
Kitesurfing -- Kitesurfing or Kiteboarding is a surface water sport that uses the wind to pull a rider through the water on a small surfboard or a kiteboard (similar to a wakeboard).
Kitewing -- A Kitewing is a wing-shaped sail designed to use wind power to provide speed and lift to riders in outdoor environments. It can be used on a number of different surfaces when paired with the appropriate vehicle.
Kneeboarding -- Kneeboarding is an aquatic sport where the participant is towed on a buoyant, convex, and hydrodynamically shaped board at a planing speed behind a motorboat.
Motocross -- Motocross is a form of motorcycle sport or all-terrain vehicle racing held on enclosed off road circuits.
Mountain Biking -- Mountain biking is a sport which consists of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, using specially adapted mountain bikes. Mountain bikes share similarities with other bikes, but incorporate features designed to enhance durability and performance in rough terrain.
Mountain Boarding -- Mountainboarding, also known as Dirtboarding, Offroad Boarding, Grass Boarding, and All-Terrain Boarding (ATB), is a well established if little-known extreme sport, derived from snowboarding.
Mountaineering -- Mountaineering or mountain climbing is the sport, hobby or profession of hiking, skiing, and climbing mountains.
Parachuting -- Sky Diving, also known as skydiving, is the action of performing acrobatics during freefall, followed by deployment of a parachute.
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 its suspension lines and the pressure of air entering vents in the front of the wing.
Paramotoring -- Powered paragliding, also known as paramotoring, is a form of ultralight aviation where the pilot wears a motor on his or her back (a paramotor) which provides enough thrust to take off using a paraglider wing.
Pistol -- The shooting sports include those competitive sports involving tests of proficiency (accuracy and speed) using various types of guns such as firearms and airguns
Powerbocking -- Powerbocking is the act of jumping and running with elastic-like spring-loaded stilts. For some it is an extreme sport, for others it is a form of exercise or even a means of artistic expression.
Rock Climbing -- Rock climbing is a sport in which participants climb up or across natural rock formations or artificial rock walls. The goal is to reach the summit of a formation or the endpoint of a pre-defined route.
Roller Derby -- Contemporary roller derby is an American-invented contact sport with roots in sports entertainment. The game is based on formation roller skating around an oval track by two teams.
Sandsurfing -- Sandsurfing quite an old extreme sport recently invented where you attach a skateboard deck or other similar object to the back of an atv or vehicle with a watersports tow rope.
Scuba Diving -- Scuba diving ("scuba" originally being an acronym for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus, now widely considered a word in its own right) is a form of underwater diving in which a diver uses a scuba set to breathe underwater for recreation, commercial or industrial reasons.
Skateboarding -- Skateboarding is the act of riding and performing tricks using a skateboard. A person who skateboards is most often referred to as a skateboarder, or colloquially within the skateboarding community, a skater.
Skiboarding -- Skiboarding is a winter sport which combines elements of skating, snowboarding, and skiing. Skiboards are used and worn in conjunction with standard ski boots that connect to the skiboards with use of a binding.
Skimboarding -- Skimboarding (or skimming) is a boardsport in which a skimboard (a smaller counterpart to a surfboard) is used to glide across the water`s surface. Unlike surfing, skimboarding begins on the beach, it starts with the dropping of the board onto the thin wash of previous waves.
Skysurfing -- Sky surfing is a type of skydiving in which the skydiver wears a board attached to his or her feet and performs surfing-style aerobatics during freefall.
Slamball -- Slamball is a form of basketball played with 4 trampolines in front of each net. It is played "full contact" and has boards around the court.
Snakeboarding -- A snakeboard is a board that was invented in 1989 by James Fisher and Oliver Macleod Smith. It evolved from the original skateboard, and brought with it elements of snowboards & surfboards. These variants have a central board with two pivoting footplates attached at each end. Wheels are attached to the footplates via a form of "truck" as they are with regular skateboards.
Snowboarding -- Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider`s feet using a special boot set onto mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, surfing and skiing.
Snowskating -- A snowskate is a small, bindingless snowboard, or a skateboard deck with skis, depending on the brand or style of snowskate.
Spearfishing -- Spearfishing is an ancient method of fishing that has been used throughout the world for millennia. Early civilizations were familiar with the custom of spearing fish from rivers and streams using sharpened sticks.
Street Luge -- Street luge is an extreme gravity-powered activity that involves riding a streetluge board (sometimes referred to as a sled) down a paved road or course. Street luge is also known as land luge or road luge. Like skateboarding, street luge is often done for sport and for recreation.
Stunt Pogo -- Stunt pogo or extreme pogo is the act of performing stunts or tricks on a pogo stick, and is often compared to other extreme sports, such as skateboarding.
Surf Fishing -- Surf fishing is the sport of catching fish standing on the shoreline or wading in the surf. A general term, surf fishing may or may not include casting a lure or bait, and refers to all types of shore fishing - from sandy and rocky beaches, rock jetties, or even fishing piers.
Surfing -- Surfing is a surface water sport in which a person (the surfer) rides a board (the surfboard) on the crest of a wave as it carries the surfer towards the shore.
Tricking -- Tricking (martial arts tricking) is the informal name of a relatively new underground alternative sport movement, combining martial arts, gymnastics, and other activities to create an "aesthetic blend of flips, kicks, and twists." Tricking incorporates a variety of moves from different arts such as flips from gymnastics, 540 kick from Taekwondo, butterfly twist from Wushu and double leg from Capoeira.
Unicycling -- A unicycle is a human-powered, single-track vehicle with one wheel. Unicycles resemble bicycles, but are less complex.
Wakeboarding -- Wakeboarding is a surface water sport which involves riding a wakeboard over the surface of a body of water. It was developed from a combination of water skiing, snow boarding and surfing techniques.
Wargaming -- A wargame is a game that deals with military operations of various types, real or fictional. Wargaming is the hobby dedicated to the play of such games, which can also be called conflict simulations, or consims for short. When used professionally to study warfare, it is generally known as a military exercise or war game.
Whitewater Kayaking -- Whitewater kayaking is the sport of paddling a kayak on a moving body of water, typically a whitewater river. Whitewater kayaking can range from simple, carefree gently moving water, to demanding, dangerous whitewater. River rapids are graded like ski runs according to the difficulty, danger or severity of the rapid.
Whitewater Rafting --
Windsports -- A windsport is any type of sport which involves wind-power, often involving a non-rigid airfoil such as a sail or a power kite. The activities can be land-based, on snow, on ice or on water.
Windsurfing -- Windsurfing is a surface water sport that combines elements of surfing and sailing. It consists of a board usually two to four meters long, powered by the orthogonal effect of the wind on a sail.
Wing Walking -- Seen in airshows and barnstorming during the 1920s, wing walking is the act of moving on the wings of an airplane during flight.
Wingsuit Flying -- Wingsuit flying is the sport of flying the human body through the air using a special jumpsuit, called a wingsuit, which adds surface area to the human body to create lift. The wingsuit creates the surface area with fabric between the legs and under the arms. A wingsuit may be referred to as a birdman suit or squirrel suit.
Zorbing -- Zorbing (globe-riding, sphereing, orbing) is the recreation of rolling downhill in an orb, generally made of transparent plastic. Zorbing is generally performed on a gentle slope, but can also be done on a level surface, permitting more rider control.

Aggressive Skating

-- Aggressive inline skating is a form of inline skating, performed on specially designed inline skates with focus on sliding stances known as grind with a focus on new tricks, stunts and personal style. Participants often refer to the activity as "rollerblading", "blading", "skating" or "rolling". Vert or park as part of extreme sports and street skating or freekate in urban areas.

Barefoot Skiing

-- Barefoot skiing is water skiing behind a motorboat without the use of water skis, commonly referred to as "barefooting". Barefooting requires the skier to travel at higher speeds than conventional water skiing (30-45mph).

Base Jumping

-- BASE jumping, also sometimes written as B.A.S.E jumping, is an activity that employs an initially packed parachute to jump from fixed objects, as with paragliding. "B.A.S.E." is an acronym that stands for four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump: buildings, antennae, spans (bridge), and earth (cliff).

BMX Freestyle

-- Freestyle BMX is a name for BMX stunt riding. It consists of five disciplines: "street," "park," "vert," "trails" or "dirt jumping," and "flatland."

Bodyboarding

-- Bodyboarding is a surface water sport (sometimes called Boogieboarding, from the inventor Tom Morey, of the "Boogie Board".

Bouldering

-- Bouldering is a style of rock climbing undertaken without a rope and normally limited to very short climbs over a crash pad (called a bouldering mat) so that a fall will not result in serious injury. It is typically practiced on large natural boulders or artificial boulders in gyms and outdoor urban areas.

Climbing

-- Climbing is the activity of using ones hands and feet (or indeed any other part of the body) to ascend a steep object.

Drag Racing

-- Drag racing is a competition in which vehicles compete to be the first to cross a set finish line, usually from a standing start, and in a straight line.

Extreme Ironing

-- Extreme Ironing (or EI) is an extreme sport and a performance art in which people take an ironing board to a remote location and iron items of clothing.

Flowboard

-- A flowboard is a variation on a skateboard, combining aspects of surfing, skating and snowboarding.

Freebording

-- A Freebord is a type of specialist skateboard designed to closely simulate the behavior of a snowboard.

Freestyle Motocross

-- Freestyle Motocross (also known as FMX) is a variation on the sport of motocross in which motorcycle riders attempt to impress judges with jumps and stunts.

Ghost Riding The Whip

-- Ghost-riding, frequently used in the context of "ghost-riding the whip" (a "whip" being a vehicle) or simply ghostin`, is when a person puts a vehicle`s transmission in gear then exits the vehicle while it is still rolling to dance beside it or on the hood or roof.

Gliding

-- Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sport in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to remain airborne. The word soaring is also used for the sport.

Hang Gliding

-- Hang gliding is an air sport in which a pilot flies a light and unmotorized foot-launchable aircraft called a hang glider (also known as Delta plane or Deltaplane).

Ice Climbing

-- Ice climbing, as the term indicates, is the activity of ascending inclined ice formations. Usually, ice climbing refers to roped and protected climbing of features such as icefalls, frozen waterfalls, and cliffs and rock slabs covered with ice refrozen from flows of water.

Kite Landboarding

-- Kite landboarding also known as Land kiteboarding or flyboarding, is based on the ever-growing sport of Kitesurfing, where a rider on a surf-style board is pulled over water by a kite. Kite landboarding involves the use of a mountain board or landboard, which is essentially an oversized skateboard with large pneumatic wheels and foot-straps.

Kitesurfing

-- Kitesurfing or Kiteboarding is a surface water sport that uses the wind to pull a rider through the water on a small surfboard or a kiteboard (similar to a wakeboard).

Kitewing

-- A Kitewing is a wing-shaped sail designed to use wind power to provide speed and lift to riders in outdoor environments. It can be used on a number of different surfaces when paired with the appropriate vehicle.

Kneeboarding

-- Kneeboarding is an aquatic sport where the participant is towed on a buoyant, convex, and hydrodynamically shaped board at a planing speed behind a motorboat.

Motocross

-- Motocross is a form of motorcycle sport or all-terrain vehicle racing held on enclosed off road circuits.

Mountain Biking

-- Mountain biking is a sport which consists of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, using specially adapted mountain bikes. Mountain bikes share similarities with other bikes, but incorporate features designed to enhance durability and performance in rough terrain.

Mountain Boarding

-- Mountainboarding, also known as Dirtboarding, Offroad Boarding, Grass Boarding, and All-Terrain Boarding (ATB), is a well established if little-known extreme sport, derived from snowboarding.

Mountaineering

-- Mountaineering or mountain climbing is the sport, hobby or profession of hiking, skiing, and climbing mountains.

Parachuting

-- Sky Diving, also known as skydiving, is the action of performing acrobatics during freefall, followed by deployment of a parachute.

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 its suspension lines and the pressure of air entering vents in the front of the wing.

Paramotoring

-- Powered paragliding, also known as paramotoring, is a form of ultralight aviation where the pilot wears a motor on his or her back (a paramotor) which provides enough thrust to take off using a paraglider wing.

Pistol

-- The shooting sports include those competitive sports involving tests of proficiency (accuracy and speed) using various types of guns such as firearms and airguns

Powerbocking

-- Powerbocking is the act of jumping and running with elastic-like spring-loaded stilts. For some it is an extreme sport, for others it is a form of exercise or even a means of artistic expression.

Rock Climbing

-- Rock climbing is a sport in which participants climb up or across natural rock formations or artificial rock walls. The goal is to reach the summit of a formation or the endpoint of a pre-defined route.

Roller Derby

-- Contemporary roller derby is an American-invented contact sport with roots in sports entertainment. The game is based on formation roller skating around an oval track by two teams.

Sandsurfing

-- Sandsurfing quite an old extreme sport recently invented where you attach a skateboard deck or other similar object to the back of an atv or vehicle with a watersports tow rope.

Scuba Diving

-- Scuba diving ("scuba" originally being an acronym for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus, now widely considered a word in its own right) is a form of underwater diving in which a diver uses a scuba set to breathe underwater for recreation, commercial or industrial reasons.

Skateboarding

-- Skateboarding is the act of riding and performing tricks using a skateboard. A person who skateboards is most often referred to as a skateboarder, or colloquially within the skateboarding community, a skater.

Skiboarding

-- Skiboarding is a winter sport which combines elements of skating, snowboarding, and skiing. Skiboards are used and worn in conjunction with standard ski boots that connect to the skiboards with use of a binding.

Skimboarding

-- Skimboarding (or skimming) is a boardsport in which a skimboard (a smaller counterpart to a surfboard) is used to glide across the water`s surface. Unlike surfing, skimboarding begins on the beach, it starts with the dropping of the board onto the thin wash of previous waves.

Skysurfing

-- Sky surfing is a type of skydiving in which the skydiver wears a board attached to his or her feet and performs surfing-style aerobatics during freefall.

Slamball

-- Slamball is a form of basketball played with 4 trampolines in front of each net. It is played "full contact" and has boards around the court.

Snakeboarding

-- A snakeboard is a board that was invented in 1989 by James Fisher and Oliver Macleod Smith. It evolved from the original skateboard, and brought with it elements of snowboards & surfboards. These variants have a central board with two pivoting footplates attached at each end. Wheels are attached to the footplates via a form of "truck" as they are with regular skateboards.

Snowboarding

-- Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider`s feet using a special boot set onto mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, surfing and skiing.

Snowskating

-- A snowskate is a small, bindingless snowboard, or a skateboard deck with skis, depending on the brand or style of snowskate.

Spearfishing

-- Spearfishing is an ancient method of fishing that has been used throughout the world for millennia. Early civilizations were familiar with the custom of spearing fish from rivers and streams using sharpened sticks.

Street Luge

-- Street luge is an extreme gravity-powered activity that involves riding a streetluge board (sometimes referred to as a sled) down a paved road or course. Street luge is also known as land luge or road luge. Like skateboarding, street luge is often done for sport and for recreation.

Stunt Pogo

-- Stunt pogo or extreme pogo is the act of performing stunts or tricks on a pogo stick, and is often compared to other extreme sports, such as skateboarding.

Surf Fishing

-- Surf fishing is the sport of catching fish standing on the shoreline or wading in the surf. A general term, surf fishing may or may not include casting a lure or bait, and refers to all types of shore fishing - from sandy and rocky beaches, rock jetties, or even fishing piers.

Surfing

-- Surfing is a surface water sport in which a person (the surfer) rides a board (the surfboard) on the crest of a wave as it carries the surfer towards the shore.

Tricking

-- Tricking (martial arts tricking) is the informal name of a relatively new underground alternative sport movement, combining martial arts, gymnastics, and other activities to create an "aesthetic blend of flips, kicks, and twists." Tricking incorporates a variety of moves from different arts such as flips from gymnastics, 540 kick from Taekwondo, butterfly twist from Wushu and double leg from Capoeira.

Unicycling

-- A unicycle is a human-powered, single-track vehicle with one wheel. Unicycles resemble bicycles, but are less complex.

Wakeboarding

-- Wakeboarding is a surface water sport which involves riding a wakeboard over the surface of a body of water. It was developed from a combination of water skiing, snow boarding and surfing techniques.

Wargaming

-- A wargame is a game that deals with military operations of various types, real or fictional. Wargaming is the hobby dedicated to the play of such games, which can also be called conflict simulations, or consims for short. When used professionally to study warfare, it is generally known as a military exercise or war game.

Whitewater Kayaking

-- Whitewater kayaking is the sport of paddling a kayak on a moving body of water, typically a whitewater river. Whitewater kayaking can range from simple, carefree gently moving water, to demanding, dangerous whitewater. River rapids are graded like ski runs according to the difficulty, danger or severity of the rapid.

Whitewater Rafting

Windsports

-- A windsport is any type of sport which involves wind-power, often involving a non-rigid airfoil such as a sail or a power kite. The activities can be land-based, on snow, on ice or on water.

Windsurfing

-- Windsurfing is a surface water sport that combines elements of surfing and sailing. It consists of a board usually two to four meters long, powered by the orthogonal effect of the wind on a sail.

Wing Walking

-- Seen in airshows and barnstorming during the 1920s, wing walking is the act of moving on the wings of an airplane during flight.

Wingsuit Flying

-- Wingsuit flying is the sport of flying the human body through the air using a special jumpsuit, called a wingsuit, which adds surface area to the human body to create lift. The wingsuit creates the surface area with fabric between the legs and under the arms. A wingsuit may be referred to as a birdman suit or squirrel suit.

Zorbing

-- Zorbing (globe-riding, sphereing, orbing) is the recreation of rolling downhill in an orb, generally made of transparent plastic. Zorbing is generally performed on a gentle slope, but can also be done on a level surface, permitting more rider control.

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