air sports
Parachuting and paragliding
Air sports are recreational and competitive activities conducted in the atmosphere, including skydiving, hang gliding, paragliding, BASE jumping, wingsuit flying, and hot air ballooning.
The term encompasses both motorized activities like aerobatics and ultralights and unpowered flight like soaring.
She got into air sports after her first tandem skydive.
- glide pathAircraft's landing descent route
- airspeedAircraft's atmospheric velocity
- skydivingRecreational freefall from aircraft
- parachutingControlled freefall using canopy
- angle of attackWing-to-airflow orientation
wingsuit flying · free fall · freefall · flying · drop zone · paragliding · aerial maneuvers · ripcord · hang gliding · pilot chute · terminal velocity · high altitude · formation flying · static line · wind tunnels · wind drift · drag · sailing
air sportswater sports
Recreation involving swimming, boating
aquatic sports · field sports · track and field · court sports · swimming
air, sports, aeronautics, aerobatics, aerial acrobatics, hot air ballooning