Water sports or aquatic sports are sports activities conducted on waterbodies and can be categorized according to the degree of immersion by the participants.

A variety of water sports; from top left: diving, surfing, water polo, synchronized swimming, swimming, rowing, yacht racing, dragon boat racing, kayaking.

On the water

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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.
  • 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

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  • 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.
  • Diving, the sport of jumping off springboards or platforms into water
  • Finswimming is a sport similar to traditional swimming using fins, monofin, snorkel, and other specific devices
  • Modern pentathlon includes épée fencing, pistol shooting, swimming, a show jumping course on horseback, and cross country running
  • Rescue swimming is swimming to rescue other swimmers
  • 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, and running
  • Water aerobics is aerobics in the water.
  • 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.
  • Water volleyball

Under water

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Recreational diving

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Underwater sports

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See also

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References

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