Water sports or aquatic sports are sport activities conducted on waterbodies and can be categorized according to the degree of immersion by the participants.
On the water
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Boat racing, the use of powerboats to participate in races
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Boating, the use of boats for personal recreation
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Bodyboarding similar to surfing, it involves catching a wave aboard a floating board — only this platform is made primarily of foam.
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Cable skiing, similar to wake boarding but with cables for artificial maneuvering
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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.
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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.
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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
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Dragon boat racing, teams of 20 paddlers racing the ancient dragon boat
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Fishing, the recreation and sport of catching fish
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Flyboard is a brand of hydroflighting device that supplies propulsion to drive the Flyboard into the air to perform a sport known as hydroflying.
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Jet Skiing is performed with a recreational watercraft that the rider sits or stands on, rather than sits inside of, as in a boat.
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Kayaking is the use of a kayak for moving across water
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Kiteboating is the act of using a kite rig as a power source to propel a boat
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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.
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Paddleboarding, where a person uses a large surfboard and paddle to surf on flat water or waves
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Parasailing, where a person is towed behind a vehicle (usually a boat) while attached to a parachute
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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.
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Rafting is a recreational outdoor activities that use an inflatable raft to navigate a river or other body of water
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River trekking, a combination of trekking and climbing and sometimes swimming along the river
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Rowing, a sport that involves propelling a boat (racing shell) on water, using oars
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Sailing is the practice of navigating a sail-powered craft on water, ice, or land
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Sit-down hydrofoiling is riding on the water with a hydrofoil attached to a ski.
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Skimboarding is a sport where people use a wooden board to slide fast on water.
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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.
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Surfing, a sport where an individual uses a board to stand up and ride on the face of a wave.
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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.
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Wakeskating, a sport where the rider stands on a board and is towed across the water performing maneuvers similar to those seen in skateboarding.
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Wakesurfing, a sport where the individual surfs on the wake created by a boat without holding onto the handle.
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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.
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White water rafting, rafting on various classes of river rapids
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Windsurfing, is a wind-propelled water sport that is a combination of sailing and surfing.
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Windfoiling, is the hydrofoiling variant of windsurfing. It uses a hydrofoil that lifts the board above the water.
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Wing foiling is a sport where an individual holds a lightweight wing on a surfboard with a hydrofoil.
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Yachting is the use of recreational boats and ships called yachts, for yacht 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.
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Artistic or synchronized swimming consists of swimmers performing a synchronized routine of elaborate moves in the water, accompanied by music.
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Diving, the sport of jumping off or platforms into water
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Finswimming is a sport similar to traditional swimming using fins, monofin, snorkel, and other specific devices
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Modern pentathlon includes épée fencing, pistol shooting, swimming, a show jumping course on equestrianism, and cross country running
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Rescue swimming is swimming to rescue other swimmers
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Swimming, including pool swimming and open water swimming
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Synchronized diving, Two divers form a team and perform dives simultaneously. The dives are identical.
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Triathlon, a multi-sport event involving the completion of three continuous and sequential endurance events, usually a combination of swimming, cycling, and running
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Water aerobics is aerobics in the water.
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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.
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Water polo is a sport of two teams played in the water with a ball.
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Water volleyball
Under water
Recreational diving
Underwater sports
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Aquathlon (underwater wrestling)
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Finswimming, some events are practiced completely underwater
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Freediving
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Snorkeling is the practice of swimming at the surface (typically of the sea) being equipped with a mask, fins, and a short tube called a snorkel.
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Spearfishing
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Sport diving (sport)
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Underwater football
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Underwater hockey is a game played underwater which has some similarities to hockey. Two teams of players use short wooden curved sticks to move a heavy hockey puck across the pool bottom to the opponents' goal.
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Underwater ice hockey
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Underwater orienteering
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Underwater photography (sport)
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Underwater rugby is a game played underwater which has some similarities to rugby 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.
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Underwater target shooting
See also
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List of beach sports
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Outdoor recreation
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Outline of canoeing and kayaking
