Hard Adventures Flashcards
Generally, an extended journey or walk with a backpack.
Backpacking
Recreational outdoor activity of using inflatable raft to navigate a river or other bodies of water.
Whitewater Rafting
The use of a kayak for moving across water. It is distinguished from canoeing by the sitting position of the paddler and the number of blades on the paddle.
Kayaking
The activity of flying hot air balloons.
Hot-air Ballooning
An activity in which participants climb up, down, or across, natural rock formations or artificial rock walls.
Rock Climbing
One of the finest outdoor opportunities available to the lover of high places.
Mountain Climbing
The sport of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, using specially designed mountain bikes.
Off-Road Biking/Mountain Biking
An air sport in which a pilot flies a light and non-motorized foot-launch aircraft called a hang glider.
Hang Gliding
Also known as parascending or parakiting, is a recreational kiting activity where a person is towed behind a vehicle (usually a boat) while attached to a specially designed canopy wing that reminds one of a parachute, known as a parasail wing.
Parasailing
A surface water sport that combines elements of surfing and sailing. It consists of a board usually 2 to 3 meters long, with a volume of about 60 to 250 liters, powered by wind on a sail.
Windsurfing
The action sport of exiting an aircraft and returning to Earth with the aid of gravity, then slowing down during the last part of descent by using a parachute.
Parachuting/Skydiving
An action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a specially designed maple wood board combined with a polyurethane coating used for making smoother slides and stronger durability.
Skateboarding
A winter sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow while standing on a snowboard attached to a rider’s feet.
Snowboarding
A form of hockey played on a dry surface using roller skates, skates with wheels.
Roller Hockey
An activity that involves jumping from a tall structure while connected to a large elastic cord.
Bungee Jumping
It is an activity where participants from fixed objects and use a parachute to break their fall.
BASE Jumping
what does “BASE” stands for?
Building, antenna, span, and Earth
Enable a user propelled by gravity to travel from the top to bottom of the inclined cable by holding on to, or attaching to, the freely moving pulley.
Zip Lining
is the recreational pastime of exploring wild (generally non-commercial) cave systems.
Cave Exploring
what does United States and Canada called the “Cave Exploring”?
Spelunking
what does United Kingdom and Ireland called the “Cave Exploring”
Potholing
The practice of swimming on or through a body of water while equipped with a diving mask, a shaped tube called snorkel, and usually fins.
Snorkeling
A form of underwater diving in which a diver uses a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba) to breathe underwater.
Scuba Diving
A sport in which participants eliminate opponents by hitting each other with spherical non-metallic pellets launched via replica firearms called Airsoft guns.
Survival Games (Airsoft)
