20. RECREATION
-DERIVED FROM LATIN WORD “RECREARE” WHICH MEANS
TO BE REFRESHED.
- RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES DEPEND ON ONE’S
INTERESTS, PURSUITS AND NEEDS.
21. OUTDOORS
-INCLUDES THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND
RESOURCES
WHICH COMPRISES THE LAND, WATER, WILDLIFE,
VEGETATION, OPEN SPACE AND SCENERY.
22. OUTDOOR RECREATION
-IS AN ORGANIZED ACTIVITIES DONE DURING ONE’S FREE
TIME FOR HIS/HER OWN PERSONAL REASONS, WHERE AN
INTERACTION BETWEEN MAN AND AN ELEMENT OF
NATURE IS PRESENT.
26. Camping
- camping, recreational
activity in which
participants take up
temporary residence in the
outdoors, usually using
tents or specially designed
or adapted vehicles for
shelter.
27. Trekking or hiking
- Hiking is an outdoor
activity which consists of
walking in natural
environments, often in
mountainous or other scenic
terrain.
28. Rock Climbing
- Rock climbing is an
activity where participants
climb up, down or across
natural rocks or artificial
rock walls. The goal is to
reach the summit or the
endpoint of a route without
falling.
29. Mountain biking
- Mountain biking is the
activity of riding a bicycle
on different kinds of off-
road trails. It requires
endurance, speed, balance
and technical skills to
navigate through rough
terrains.
30. Picnic
- an outing or occasion
that involves taking a
packed meal to be eaten
outdoors.
32. Swimming
- swimming, in recreation and
sports, the propulsion of the
body through water by
combined arm and leg motions
and the natural flotation of the
body.
34. Surfing
- Surfing is a surface water
sport in which an individual,
a surfer uses a board to ride
on the forward section, or
face, of a moving wave of
water.
35. Kayaking
- Kayaking is the use of a
kayak for moving over water.
It is distinguished from
canoeing by the sitting
position of the paddler and
the number of blades on the
paddle.
36. Fishing
- 1 : the sport or business of
catching fish. 2 : a place for
catching fish.
38. Parasailing
- Parasailing, also known as
parascending, paraskiing or parakiting,
is a recreational kiting activity where
a person is towed behind a vehicle
while attached to a specially designed
canopy wing that resembles a
parachute, known as a parasail wing.
The manned kite's moving anchor
may be a car, truck, or boat.
39. Skydiving
- the sport or activity of
jumping from an aircraft
and performing acrobatic
maneuvers in the air during
free fall before landing by
parachute.
40. Paragliding
- Paragliding is the
recreational and competitive
adventure sport of flying
paragliders: lightweight, free-
flying, foot-launched glider
aircraft with no rigid primary
structure. The pilot sits in a
harness or lies supine in a
cocoon-like 'speed bag'
suspended below a fabric wing.
43. - regular outdoor activity, provides a
number of physical health benefits,
including lower blood pressures,
reduced arthritis pain, weight loss, and
lowered risk of diabetes, certain cancer,
osteoporosis, and cardiovascular
disease.
59. - POSITIVE OUTDOOR EXPERIENCES CAN STIR UP SPIRITUAL VALUES BEING
ONE WITH NATURE BRINGS CERTAIN CALMNESS WITHIN A PERSON. IT
STRENGTHENS AN INDIVIDUAL AS IT HEALS, REJUVENATES, AND SOOTHES
THE BODY AND SOUL.
