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Spectrum Chart - 317 : Adventure Sports
1. Hiking – Hiking is a general word for
travelling on foot in the mountains or the countryside. Hiking is a
kind of physical activity as well as a leisure activity. Hikers enjoy
fresh air and the beauty of nature. Hiking can also be an attraction
for people who enjoy challenging their physical and mental strength.
2. Bungi Jumping - Bungi jumping is an
extreme sport in which people jump from higher ground such as a
bridge with an elastic rope tied to their ankles to stop them from
hitting the ground. The rope is designed to stretch, not break. When
the rope has stretched all the way, the jumper bounces back up. When
people jump they wear safety equipment like helmets and a harness.
3. Mountaineering - Mountaineering is a
sport where people climb mountains. It may involve hiking,
scrambling, rock climbing, as well as crossing glaciers. Someone who
does mountain climbing is called a mountain climber.
4. Rock Climbing - Rock climbing is a
sport where someone uses his hands and feet to climb up a rock or an
artificial climbing wall. Rock climbing is a very difficult sport
because you need to have a lot of strength. Rock climbers must know
how to use ropes, carabiners and harnesses for their own safety.
5. Parachute Jumping – A parachute uses
drag to slow something moving in air. It is often an umbrella shaped
device on which people or things can float slowly and safely down to
the ground from a great height, such as an aircraft. Sky divers use
parachute for their landing on ground.
6. Hang Gliding - Hang gliding is a sport
which involves soaring in a very small aircraft without an engine.
Hang gliding is an air sport or recreational activity in which a
pilot flies a light, non-motorised foot-launched heavier-than-air
aircraft called a hang glider.
7. Paragliding – Paragliding is the
recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying para gliders
lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid
primary structure. The pilot sits in a harness suspended below a
fabric wing comprising a large number of interconnected baffled
cells. Despite not using an engine, para gliders flight can last many
hours and cover many hundreds of kilometres.
8. Sky Diving – Skydiving is a sport
involving a skydiver jumping down from an air plane while it is flying
and parachuting to the ground. Skydiving can be done individually and
with other people. Training is required to go alone. The jump can
also be made from a helicopter or the bottom of a hot air balloon
from 4000 m or 13,000 ft. Skydiving can be an exciting sport.
9. Formula 1 Race - Formula One is a type
of Motorsports. Teams compete in a series of Grand Prix races, held in
different countries around the world. Formula One cars are the
fastest road course racing cars in the world, owing to very high
cornering speeds achieved through the generation of large amounts of
aerodynamic downforce.
10. Skiing – Skiing is a mode of
transport, recreational activity and competitive winter sport in
which the participant uses skis to glide on snow. Skis are used with
special boots connected to them with a binding. There are two
different types of skiing downhill skiing and cross country skiing.
11. Mountain Biking - Mountain biking is
the sport of riding bicycles off-road. Often this is done over rough
terrain. Mountain biking uses specially designed mountain bikes.
Mountain bikes are similar to other bikes, but have features designed
to make them stronger and hold up in rough terrain.
12. X-Games, Incline Skating - Vert skating
is a sport and a term used to refer to riding inline skates or roller
skates on a vert ramp, a half-pipe with some vertical in it usually
between 6" to 24". It is a form of acrobatics performed with
skates. The sport was included in the first X-Games in 1995.
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