The definition of an outdoor activity (e.g. a leisure, recreation or sport activity undertaken in a natural, rural or urban space, can be done as an individual or part of a group)

• examples of outdoor activities, i.e.

○ water sports (e.g. canoeing, dinghy sailing, windsurfing) ○ trekking (e.g. hillwalking, orienteering, mountaineering)

○ camping (e.g. wild camping) ○ climbing (e.g. single pitch, abseiling)

○ caving (e.g. potholing, mine exploration)

○ cycling (e.g. mountain biking, trail biking)

○ snow sports (e.g. snowboarding, cross country skiing, downhill skiing, snowshoeing)

○ gliding (e.g. hang gliding, paragliding)

○ other land-based activities (e.g. gorge walking, sea level traversing, high rope courses)

• provision of outdoor activities in the UK, i.e.

○ outdoor activity providers (e.g. outdoor activity centres, activity specific organisations, residential centres/camps)

○ national sports centres (e.g. Plas–y–Brenin in North Wales, Holme Pierrepont in Nottinghamshire)

○ voluntary organisations (e.g. Scouts, Guides, Duke of Edinburgh’s Award)

○ examples of local and national providers of the different outdoor activities identified.