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List of water sports. A variety of water sports; from top left: diving, surfing, water polo, synchronized swimming, swimming, rowing, yacht racing, dragon boat racing, kayaking. Water sports or aquatic sports are sports activities conducted on waterbodies and can be categorized according to the degree of immersion by the participants.
Flowriding, also known as flowboarding, is a late-20th century alternative boardsport incorporating elements of surfing, bodyboarding, skateboarding, skimboarding, snowboarding and wakeboarding. Flowriding takes place on an artificial wave machine, called the FlowRider or the FlowBarrel, created by Wave Loch.
Windsurfing is a wind-propelled water sport that is a combination of sailing and surfing. [ 1 ] It is also referred to as "sailboarding" and "boardsailing", and emerged in the late 1960s from the Californian aerospace and surf culture. [ 2 ] Windsurfing gained a popular following across Europe and North America by the late 1970s [ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ...
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Underwater target shooting is an underwater sport that tests a competitors’ ability to accurately use a speargun via a set of individual and team events conducted in a swimming pool using free diving or Apnoea technique. The sport was developed in France during the early 1980s and is currently practised mainly in Europe.
Standup paddleboarders stand on boards that are floating on the water and use a paddle to propel themselves through the water. The sport was documented in a 2013 report that identified it as the outdoor sporting activity with the most first-time participants in the United States that year. [ 2 ]
Canoe polo originated in the late 19th century in Great Britain, with Punch magazine publishing a picture entitled "Polo on the Sea" in 1875. [1] The modern sport was born in the demonstration event held at the National Canoe Exhibition in the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre of London in 1970.
At Paris 2024, 47% of Team GB's medals came from water sports. More governing bodies have joined the campaign group, formed in April and known as the Clean Water Sports Alliance, to tackle water ...