ON THE WATER
BOAT RACING – the use of water boats to participate in race.
BOATING – the use to boats for personal recreation.
CABLE SKIING – similar to wake boarding but with cables for artificial maneuvering.
CANOE POLO – combines boating and ball handing skills with a contact team game, where tactics and positional play game 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 sport or recreational activity.
DRAGON BOAT RACING – teams of 20 paddles racing the ancient dragon boat.
FISHING – the recreation and sport of catching fish.
FLY BOARD – a brand of hydro flighting device which supplies propulsion to drive the fly board into the air to perform a sport know as hydro flying.
JET SKIING – performed with a recreational watercraft that the rider sits or stands on, rather than sits inside of as in a boat.
KAYAKING – the act of using a kite ring as a power source to propel a boat.
KNEE BOARDING – an aquatic sports where the participants is towed on a buoyant, convex, and hydrodynamic shared board at a planing speed, most often behind a motorboat.
PICIGIN – a traditional croatian ball game that is played on the beach. It is as amateur sport played in shadow water, consisting of players keeping a small ball from touching the water.
RAFTING – recreational out door activities which use an inflatable raft to negative 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 the water.
SAILING- the practice of navigating a sail powered craft on water, ice or land.
SIT-DOWN HYDROFOILING- is rading in the water with a hydrofoil attracted to a ski.
SKIM BOARDING- a sport where people use a wooden board to slide fast on water.
STONE SKIPPING- a sport where people complete for number of times and length that they can skip a stone on the waters surfing.
SURFING- a sport where on individual uses a board to stand up and ride on the face of a wave.
WAKE BOARDING- a sport where on individual is attached to a board via bindings and then hold a handle to be towed across the water while riding side way.
WAKESKATING- a sport where the rider stand in a board and is towed across the water performing maneuvers similar to those seen in skateboarding.
IN THE WATER
AQUA JOGGING- 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.
Artistic or synchronised swimming – consists of swimmers performing a synchronised 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 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 polo- is a sport of two teams played in water with a ball
By Loraine Ramoran
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