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Aquatics - also known as water sports, or anything played in water. Water sports are fun and popular forms of recreational activity.
1. SWIMMING – involves moving through the water using your arms and legs, one of the most popular taught in school.
2. TRIATHLON – is an endurance race that consists of swimming, cycling, and running always in that order, various distance(s).
3. WATER AEROBICS – it consists of being submerged, usually about waist deep in water and moving your water’s resistance. And a healthy mix of cardiovascular and muscular training.
4. WATER GYMNASTICS – It is suitable for everyone (both old and young). The exercises cover all the muscle groups and include exercises of coordination, stretching and relaxing.
5. WATER POLO – competitive team sport played in water between two of seven players each.
6. SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING – also called as Artistic Swimming, is a water sport where athletes perform synchronized dance routines to background music, while they’re floating in the water.
7. SNORKELING – is peeking through life underneath water by swimming with the aid of a snorkel and mask. It has also been used in water-based search by rescue teams and in water sports such as underwater hockey, underwater rugby, and spear fishing.
8. SCUBA DIVING – acronym for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus or SCUBA. It’s also a diving method where a diver uses a regulator as the breathing apparatus and a tank with compressed air which enables the diver to breathe normally underwater.
9. BOATING – involves rowing or sailing a boat.
10. CANOEING – paddling forward is the most basic and important stroke as this will bring you to places. It is also described in three phases; The Catch, Power Phase and Exit and Recovery.
11. KAYAKING – the torso and legs will do most of the work, the shoulder and arms will be used to transfer power.
12. DRAGON BOAT RACING – isa fun-filled, adrenaline pumping, water sports activity. Teams compete in Dragon Boats, which are large canoe-like vessels that are up to 16 people sit in pairs.
13. ROWING – involves propelling a boat using oars fixed to the vessel
14. FISHING – mean fishing for, catching, taking or attempting to fish for.
15. SURFING – and individual uses a board to ride, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore.
16. WAKEBOARDING – an extreme sport performed on water, the rider is fastened to a board and towed behind a motorboat at speeds of around 50km per hour.