# List of water sports

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

## On the water

* 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

* 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
### Recreational diving

* Cave diving
* Deep diving
* Freediving
* Ice diving
* Mermaiding
* Spearfishing
* Underwater archaeology, particularly activity involving wreck diving
* Underwater photography, including underwater videography, is photography done underwater. Numerous contests worldwide are arranged every year. Digital cameras have revolutionized how many divers participate.
* Underwater videography

### Underwater sports

* Aquathlon (underwater wrestling)
* Finswimming, some events are practiced completely underwater
* Freediving
* 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.
* Spearfishing
* Sport diving (sport)
* Underwater football
* 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 puck across the pool bottom to the opponents' goal.
* Underwater ice hockey
* Underwater orienteering
* Underwater photography (sport)
* 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.
* Underwater target shooting