What is Outdoor Recreation??

Outdoor recreation activities have been defined as those activities that: are undertaken outside confines or building do not involve organised competition or formal rules can be undertaken without the existence of any built facility or infrastructure may require large areas of land, water or air may require outdoor areas of predominantly unmodified natural landscape   Facilities, site modification or infrastructure may be provided to manage the impacts generated by the activities. However, outdoor recreation activities can be undertaken without facilities, site modification or infrastructure. Outdoor recreation activities include (but are not limited to) non-competitive: Ballooning Boating/sailing Bungy jumping Bushwalking Camping Canoeing Canyoning Caving Climbing Conservation activities Cycling Fishing Fossicking/collecting Four-wheel-driving Hang-gliding/para-gliding Horse riding Hunting (recreational) Jet skiing Kayaking (river and sea) Kite flying Motor/trail bike riding Mountain bike riding Nature studies Orienteering Parachuting Picnicking Rafting Rogaining Ropes courses Sailboarding Scuba diving Shooting (recreational) Skateboarding/ rollerblading Skiing (snow): Cross country/Nordic Skiing (snow): Downhill Snorkelling Surfing Touring Waterskiing It should be noted that activities that involve organised competition based on formal rules are, by definition, sports. Competitive versions of some of the above activities exist.