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In the water

• Swimming
  Swimming
  
  Swimming is the movement by humans or animals through water, usually without artificial assistance. Swimming is an activity that can be both useful and recreational....
   includes pool swimming and open water swimming
• Triathlon
  Triathlon
  
  A triathlon is an endurance sports event consisting of running, biking, and swimming over various distances. As a result, proficiency in swimming, cycling, or running alone is not sufficient to guarantee a triathlon athlete a competitive time, trained triathletes have learned to race each stage in a way that preserves their energy and endur...
   is usually a combination of swimming, cycling
  Cycling
  
  Cycling is the use of bicycles, or - less commonly - unicycles, tricycles, Quadracycle s and other similar wheeled human powered vehicles as a means of transport, a form of recreation or a sport....
   and running
  Running
  
  Running is a means for an Terrestrial locomotion in animals on foot. It is defined in sporting terms as a gait in which at some point all feet are off the ground at the same time....
  
• Modern pentathlon
  Modern pentathlon
  
  The modern pentathlon is a sports contest that includes five events: pistol shooting, ?p?e fencing , 200 m freestyle swimming, show jumping, and a 3 km Cross country running....
   includes épée fencing, pistol shooting
  Shooting
  
  Shooting is the act or process of firing rifles, shotguns or other projectile weapons such as Bow s or crossbows. Even the firing of artillery, rockets and missiles can be called shooting....
  , swimming, a show jumping
  Show jumping
  
  Show jumping, also known as "stadium jumping" or "jumpers," is a member of a family of English riding equestrianism events that also includes dressage, eventing, Show hunter and equitation....
   course on horseback
  Equestrianism
  
  Equestrianism refers to the skill of riding or driving horses. This broad description includes both use of horses for practical, working animal purposes as well as recreational activities and animals in sport....
  , and cross country running
  Cross country running
  
  Cross Country running is a sport in which runners compete to complete a course over open or rough terrain. The courses used at these events may include Poaceae, mud, woodlands, and water....
  
• Rescue swimming
  Rescue swimming
  
  Rescue Swimming refers to skills that enable an individual to attempt a rescue when a swimming is in difficulty. These include a combination of communication skills, specific "rescue" swimming strokes, and release and evade techniques for self-preservation should the rescue go wrong....
   is swimming with the goal to rescue other swimmers or the practice thereof
• Water polo
  Water polo
  
  Water polo is a team water sport. It is the oldest continuous Olympic team sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper with a maximum of six substitutes....
   is a team sport played in water.
• Synchronized swimming
  Synchronized swimming
  
  Synchronised swimming is a hybrid form of swimming, dance and gymnastics, consisting of swimmers performing a synchronised routine of elaborate moves in the water, accompanied by music....
   is a hybrid of swimming, gymnastics
  Gymnastics
  
  Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility and coordination. Artistic Gymnastics is the best known and most popular of the gymnastics sports governed by the F?d?ration Internationale de Gymnastique ....
  , and ballet
  Ballet
  
  Ballet is a formalized type of performative dance, the origins of which date lay in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France courts, and which was further developed in England, Italy, and Russia as a concert dance form....
  .
• Water aerobics
  Water aerobics
  
  Water aerobics or "waterobics" is the performance of aerobics in shallow water such as a swimming pool. In some areas it is known as AquaFit or "aqua aerobics", and is a type of Resistance training#Hydraulic resistance....
   is aerobics
  Aerobics
  
  Aerobics is a form of physical exercise that combines rhythmic aerobic exercise with stretching and strength training routines with the goal of improving all elements of fitness ....
   in the water
• Water gymnastics is gymnastics in the water
• Snorkeling
  Snorkeling
  
  Snorkeling is the practice of swimming on or through a body of water while equipped with a diving mask, a shaped tube called a snorkel, and usually swimfins....
   is the practice of swimming at the surface (typically of the sea
  SEA
  
  See also: Sea and seasThe three-letter acronym SEA may refer to:People/organizations/businesses*Scientists and Engineers for America, a pro-science political advocacy group....
  ) being equipped with a mask and a short tube called a snorkel.
• Diving
  Diving
  
  Diving refers to the sport of performing acrobatics while jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard of a certain height. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games....
   off springboard
  Springboard
  
  A springboard or diving board is used for diving and is a board that is itself a Spring , i.e. a linear flex-spring, of the cantilever type....
  s or off platforms
• Synchronized diving
  Synchronized diving
  
  Synchronized diving is an Olympic Games sport. Brought to the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia in 2000, the diving event features two divers who attempt to perform identical or mirrored dives....
  
• A water slide
  Water slide
  
  A water slide is a type of Playground slide or tube designed for warm-weather or indoor recreational use, typically with water pumped to its top and allowed to flow down its surface, although some may simply be wet....
   is a slide with water flowing down it

Under water

• Scuba diving
  Scuba diving
  
  SCUBA diving is Underwater diving, or taking part in another activity, while using a scuba set. By carrying a source of breathing gas , the scuba diver is able to stay underwater longer than with the simple breath-holding techniques used in snorkeling and free-diving, and is not hindered by air lines to a remote air source....
   is swimming under water using a (self contained) breathing apparatus
• Free-diving
  Free-diving
  
  Freediving is any of various aquatic activities that share the practice of breath-hold underwater diving. Examples include breathhold spear fishing, freedive photography, apnea competitions and, to a degree, snorkeling....
   is the aim to maximize the depth dived using no breathing apparatus
• Underwater hockey
  Underwater hockey
  
  Underwater hockey is a non-contact sport in which two teams compete to manoeuvre a hockey puck across the bottom of a swimming pool into Goal s....
   is hockey
  Hockey
  
  Hockey is any of a family of sports in which two teams compete by trying to maneuver a ball, or a hard, round, rubber or heavy plastic disc called a Hockey puck, into the opponent's net or goal, using a hockey stick....
   played under water with short wooden curved sticks and a heavy puck
  Hockey puck
  
  A puck is a disk used in various games serving the same functions as a ball in ball games. The best-known use of pucks is in ice hockey, a major international sport....
  . Players wear diving masks, snorkels, and fins, and must surface to breathe while team mates continue the game on the pool bottom.
• Underwater rugby
  Underwater rugby
  
  Underwater Rugby is a quite young sport that has its origin in the physical fitness training of German diving clubs and has little in common with ?normal? Rugby football except for the name....
   is rugby played under water. Two teams try to score goals by sending a slightly negatively buoyant ball into the opponents' goal, which is situated on the bottom of the pool.
• Underwater photography
  Underwater photography
  
  Underwater photography is the process of taking photographs while under water. It is usually done while scuba diving, but can be done while snorkeling or swimming....
   is photography
  Photography
  
  Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an ....
   done under water. Numerous contests worldwide are arranged every year. The digital camera
  Digital camera
  
  A digital camera is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording digital image via an electronics .Many compact digital still cameras can record sound and moving video as well as still photographs....
  s have revolutionized how many divers participate.

On the water

• Skurfing is where the participant "skurfs" behind a boat on a surfboard
• Barefoot water skiing is waterskiing with no skiis
• Boat
  Boat
  
  A boat is a watercraft of modest size designed to float or plane on water, and provide transport over it. Usually this water will be inland or in protected coastal areas....
  ing is the use of boats
• Bodyboarding
  Bodyboarding
  
  Bodyboarding is a derivative of Ocean surface wave riding. The average board consists of a small, rectangular piece of hydrodynamic foam. The board can be shaped and adapted to different riding styles, and size of rider....
   is similar to surfing, but the board is smaller and the person (normally) lies down on the board
• Canoe
  Canoe
  
  A canoe is a small narrow boat, typically human-powered, though it may also be powered by sails or small electric or gas motors. Canoes usually are pointed at both bow and stern and are normally open on top, but can be covered....
  ing
• Fishing
  Fishing
  
  Fishing is the activity of catching fish. Fishing techniques include Fish net, Fish trap, Spearfishing, angling and Gathering seafood by hand. The term fishing may be applied to catching other aquatic animals such as different types of shellfish, squid, octopus, turtles, Edible frog and some edible marine invertebrates....
   is the recreation and sport of catching fish
• Jet Ski
  Jet ski
  
  Jet Ski is the brand name of personal watercraft manufactured by Kawasaki Heavy Industries. The name, however, has become a genericized trademark for any type of personal watercraft....
  
• Kayak
  Kayak
  
  A kayak is a small human-powered boat. It typically has a covered deck, and a cockpit covered by a spraydeck. The kayak was used by the native Ainu people, Aleuts and Eskimo hunters in sub-Arctic regions of northeastern Asia, North America and Greenland....
  ing
• Kite surfing on flat water using a kite
  Kite
  
  A kite is a flying tethered aircraft that depends upon the tension of a tethering system. The necessary Lift that makes the kite wing fly is generated when air flows over and under the kite's wing, producing low pressure above the wing and high pressure below it....
   for propulsion
• Parasailing
  Parasailing
  
  Parasailing, also known as parascending, is a recreational activity where a person is towed behind a vehicle while attached to a specially designed parachute, known as a parasail....
   where a person is towed behind a vehicle (usually a boat) while attached to a parachute
  Parachute
  
  A parachute is a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating Drag .Parachutes are made out of cloth, most commonly nylon....
  
• Rafting
  Rafting
  
  Rafting or whitewater rafting is a challenging recreational activity utilizing 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....
  
• Rowing
• Sailing
  Yacht racing
  
  Yacht racing is the sport of competitive yachting. There is a broad variety of kinds of races and sailboats used for racing. Much racing is done around buoys or similar marks in protected waters, while some longer offshore races cross open water....
   using the wind for propulsion
• Skimboarding
  Skimboarding
  
  Skimboarding is a boardsport in which a skimboard is used to ride on an incoming wave. Unlike surfing, skimboarding begins on the beach, with the skimboarder running and dropping their board onto the thin wash of previous waves....
   is a boardsport in which a board is used to ride on an incoming wave.
• Stand Up Paddle Boarding a surf style board with a paddle, used in flatwater or waves
• Surfing
  Surfing
  
  Surfing refers to a person or boat riding down a wave and thereby gathering speed from the downward movement. Most commonly, the term is used for a surface water sports in which the person surfing is carried along the face of a breaking ocean surface wave standing on a surfboard....
   downhill on ocean waves or artificial wave
  Artificial wave
  
  Artificial waves are man-made Ocean surface waves usually created on a specially designed surface or in a Swimming pool.Artificial waves are created in one or two ways....
  s in an artificial wave pool
  Artificial wave pool
  
  An artificial wave pool is a type of pool that creates waves that can be surfed upon like normal ocean waves. It is therefore an alternative to "natural" surfing....
  
• White Water Rafting
• Wakeboarding
  Wakeboarding
  
  Wakeboarding is a surface water sport which involves riding a wakeboard over the surface of a body of water behind a boat or Cable System ....
   is similar to water skiing, but using only one board attached to the feet
• Wake skating is similar to wakeboarding, but the board is not attached to the feet
• Water skiing
  Water skiing
  
  Water skiing is a sport where an individual is pulled behind a motor boat or a Cable skiing on a body of water wearing one or more skis. The surface area of the ski keeps the person skimming on the surface of the water allowing the skier to stand upright while holding the tow rope....
   is using skis to slide over the water while being pulled by a boat or other device
• Windsurfing
  Windsurfing
  
  Windsurfing, or sailboarding, is a Surface Water Sports using a windsurf board, also commonly called a sailboard, usually two to five meters long and powered by the wind pushing on a sail....
   on flat water using wind for propulsion in combination with sails
• Yachting
  Yachting
  
  Yachting or recreational sailing is the specific act of sailing as a sport....
   sailing on yachts, daysailing, cruising or Yacht racing
  Yacht racing
  
  Yacht racing is the sport of competitive yachting. There is a broad variety of kinds of races and sailboats used for racing. Much racing is done around buoys or similar marks in protected waters, while some longer offshore races cross open water....