Soft Adventures Flashcards
An outdoor recreational activity. The participants (known as campers) leave urban areas, their home region, or civilization and enjoy nature while spending one or several nights outdoors, usually at a campsite. Camping may involve the use of tent, caravan, motorhome, a primitive structure, sporting camp or no shelter at all.
Camping
The sport of riding a bicycle. Persons engaged in cycling are referred to as “cyclists”, “bikers”, or less commonly, as “bicyclists”. Apart from two-wheeled bicycles, “cycling” also includes the riding of unicycles, tricycles, quadracycles, and similar human-powered vehicles (HPVs)
Biking
In Canada and the USA is the preferred term for a long vigorous walk, usually on trails, in the countryside, while the word walking is used for shorter, particularly urban walks. On the other hand, in the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland, the term walking is used to describe all forms of walking, whether it is a walk in the park or trekking in the Alps.
“Gentle” Hiking
Also known as “birding”, is a form of wildlife observation in which the observation of birds as a recreational activity. It can be done with the naked eye, through a visual enhancement device like binoculars and telescopes or by listening for bird sounds.
Bird Watching
The sport of managing a boat, as for racing.
Sailing
Referring to the skill of riding, driving, steeple chasing or vaulting with horses. This broad description includes the use of horses for practical working purposes, transportation, recreational activities, artistic or cultural exercises, and competitive sport.
Horseback Riding
Recreational activity and competitive sport in which the participant uses skis to glide on snow.
Snow Skiing
A surface water sport in which an individual is pulled behind a boat or a cable ski installation over a body of water, skimming the surface on two skis or one (slalom) ski.
Water Skiing
A paddle sport in which you kneel or sit facing forward in an open or closed-decked canoe, and propel yourself with a single-bladed paddle, under your own power.
Canoeing
An overland journey, usually a trip by tourists to Africa. In earlier years, the trip was a big-game hunt, but today, safari often refers to trips to observe and photograph wildlife-or hiking and sight-seeing.
Photo Safari
The activity of touring on natural environments that has not been significantly modified by civilized human activity. A guest is required to have a command of survival skills (such as making shelters, fire-making, navigation, and first aid) and an understanding of the ecology and history of the location.
Wilderness Tours
