- "Outdoor recreation or outdoor activity refers to recreation done outside, most commonly in natural settings."
Outdoor activities involve participating in recreational activities such as hiking, camping, rock climbing, kayaking, or skiing.
Hiking: Walking long distances on trails or paths in natural environments such as mountains, forests, and wilderness areas.
Camping: Staying overnight in tents or other temporary shelters in natural environments such as national parks, state parks, and wilderness areas.
Backpacking: Hiking and camping for multiple days or even weeks, carrying all necessary gear and supplies on your back.
Mountaineering: Activities that involve climbing mountains or other high peaks, including rock climbing, ice climbing, and alpine climbing.
Rock climbing: Climbing up, down or across natural rock formations or artificial rock walls.
Kayaking: A water sport that involves paddling a small boat through rivers, lakes or ocean waters.
Canoeing: A water sport that involves paddling a canoe through rivers or lakes.
Fishing: The act of catching fish for recreational or commercial purposes.
Hunting: The act of killing or trapping animals for food, sport, or as a means of pest control.
Biking: Riding bicycles on trails, roads or through natural environments.
Birding: The observation and study of birds in their natural environment.
Wilderness survival: Techniques and skills used to survive in isolated and hostile environments with limited resources and no support.
Navigation: The art and science of determining your position and planning and following a route across land, sea, or air.
- "The activities that encompass outdoor recreation vary depending on the physical environment they are being carried out in. These activities can include fishing, hunting, backpacking, walking, and horseback riding."
- "These activities can be completed individually or collectively."
- "Outdoor recreation is typically pursued for purposes of physical exercise, general wellbeing, and spiritual renewal."
- "Rather, it is the collectivist idea that is at the fore in outdoor recreation, as outdoor recreation does not necessarily encompass the same degree of competitiveness or rivalry that is embodied in sporting matches or championships."
- "When the activity involves exceptional excitement, physical challenge, or risk, it is sometimes referred to as 'adventure recreation' or 'adventure training', rather than an extreme sport."
- "Other traditional examples of outdoor recreational activities include hiking, camping, mountaineering, cycling, dog walking, canoeing, caving, kayaking, rafting, rock climbing, running, sailing, skiing, sky diving, and surfing."
- "As new pursuits, often hybrids of prior ones, emerge, they gain their own identities, such as coasteering, canyoning, fastpacking, and plogging."
- "In many cities, recreational areas for various outdoor activities are created for the population."
- "These include natural parks, parks, playgrounds, sports facilities but also areas with free sea access such as the beach area of Venice Beach in California, the Promenade des Anglais in Nice or the waterfront of Barcola in Trieste."
- "While a wide variety of outdoor recreational activities can be classified as sports, they do not all demand that a participant be an athlete."
- "Competition generally is less stressed than in organized individual or team sports."
- "Outdoor recreation is typically pursued for purposes of physical exercise, general wellbeing, and spiritual renewal."
- "These activities can be completed individually or collectively."
- "Rather, it is the collectivist idea that is at the fore in outdoor recreation."
- "Kayaking, rafting, sailing, and surfing."
- "Mountaineering, rock climbing, and skydiving."
- "Hiking, backpacking, and camping."
- "Running, skiing, and cycling."
- "Hybrids such as coasteering, canyoning, fastpacking, and plogging."