Water sports oraquatic sports aresports activities conducted onwaterbodies and can be categorized according to the degree of immersion by the participants.
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
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 aparachute
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
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.
Aquajogging, is a cross-training and rehabilitation method using low-impact resistance training. It is a way to train without impacting joints. Participants wear a flotation device and move in a running motion in the deep end of a pool. Aside from a pool, the equipment can include a flotation belt and weights.
Artistic or synchronized swimming consists of swimmers performing a synchronized routine of elaborate moves in the water, accompanied by music.
Swimming, including pool swimming and open water swimming
Synchronized diving, Two divers form a team and perform dives simultaneously. The dives are identical.
Triathlon, a multi-sport event involving the completion of three continuous and sequential endurance events, usually a combination of swimming,cycling, andrunning
Water basketball, mixes the rules of basketball and water polo, played in a swimming pool. Teams of five players must shoot at the goal with a ball within a specific time after gaining possession.
Water polo is a sport of two teams played in the water with a ball.
Underwater hockey is a game played underwater which has some similarities tohockey. Two teams of players use short wooden curved sticks to move a heavypuck across the pool bottom to the opponents' goal.
Underwater rugby is a game played underwater which has some similarities torugby football. Two teams try to score goals by sending a slightly negatively buoyant ball into the opponents' goal placed on the bottom of the pool.
