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Boat racing, the use of powerboats to participate in races •
Boating, the use of boats for personal recreation •
Bodyboarding similar to surfing, it involves catching a wave aboard a floating board — only this platform is made primarily of foam. •
Cable skiing, similar to wake boarding but with cables for artificial maneuvering •
Canoe polo combines boating and ball-handling skills with a contact team game, where tactics and positional play 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 a sport or recreational activity. •
Canyoning is a sport that involves traveling through canyons using a variety of techniques, such as walking, scrambling, climbing, jumping, abseiling (rappelling), swimming, and rafting •
Dragon boat racing, teams of 20 paddlers racing the ancient dragon boat •
Fishing, the recreation and sport of catching fish •
Flyboard is a brand of hydroflighting device that supplies propulsion to drive the Flyboard into the air to perform a sport known as hydroflying. •
Jet Skiing is performed with a recreational watercraft that the rider sits or stands on, rather than sits inside of, as in a boat. •
Kayaking is the use of a kayak for moving across water •
Kiteboating is the act of using a kite rig as a power source to propel a boat •
Kneeboarding is an aquatic sport where the participant is towed on a buoyant, convex, and hydrodynamically shaped board at a planing speed, most often behind a motorboat. •
Paddleboarding, where a person uses a large surfboard and paddle to surf on flat water or waves •
Parasailing, where a person is towed behind a vehicle (usually a boat) while attached to a
parachute •
Picigin is a traditional Croatian ball game that is played on the beach. It is an amateur sport played in shallow water, consisting of players keeping a small ball from touching the water. •
Rafting is a recreational outdoor activities that use an inflatable raft to navigate 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 water, using oars •
Sailing is the practice of navigating a sail-powered craft on water, ice, or land •
Sit-down hydrofoiling is riding on the water with a hydrofoil attached to a ski. •
Skimboarding is a sport where people use a wooden board to slide fast on water. •
Stone skipping, is a sport where people compete for the number of times and length that they can skip a stone on the water's surface. •
Surfing, a sport where an individual uses a board to stand up and ride on the face of a wave. •
Wakeboarding, a sport where an individual is attached to a board via bindings and then holds a handle to be towed across the water while riding sideways. •
Wakeskating, a sport where the rider stands on a board and is towed across the water performing maneuvers similar to those seen in skateboarding. •
Wakesurfing, a sport where the individual surfs on the wake created by a boat without holding onto the handle. •
Water skiing, a sport where an individual holds onto a rope and handle while being towed across the water while riding one or two water skis. •
White water rafting, rafting on various classes of river
rapids •
Windsurfing, is a wind-propelled water sport that is a combination of sailing and surfing. •
Windfoiling, is the hydrofoiling variant of windsurfing. It uses a hydrofoil that lifts the board above the water. •
Wing foiling is a sport where an individual holds a lightweight wing on a surfboard with a
hydrofoil. •
Yachting is the use of recreational boats and ships called yachts, for
racing or
cruising == In the water ==