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| What is Outdoor Recreation? |
Outdoor recreation activities have been defined as those activities that:
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 | are undertaken outside the confines of buildings (ie, in the outdoors); and |  |
do not involve organised competition or formal rules; and |  |
can be undertaken without the existence of any built facility or infrastructure; and |  |
may require large areas of land, water and/or air; and |  |
may require outdoor areas of predominantly unmodified natural landscape. |
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Facilities, site modification or infrastructure may be provided to manage the impacts generated by the activities. However, outdoor recreation activities can be undertaken without facilities, site modification or infrastructure.
Outdoor recreation activities include (but are not limited to) non-competitive:
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 | Ballooning |  |
Boating/sailing |  |
Bungy jumping |  |
Bushwalking |  |
Camping |  |
Canoeing |  |
Canyoning |  |
Caving |  |
Climbing |  |
Conservation activities |  |
Cycling |  |
Fishing |  |
Fossicking/collecting |  |
Four-wheel-driving |  |
Hang-gliding/para-gliding |  |
Horse riding |  |
Hunting (recreational) |  |
Jet skiing |  |
Kayaking (river and sea) |  |
Kite flying |  |
Motor/trail bike riding |  |
Mountain bike riding |  |
Nature studies |  |
Orienteering |  |
Parachuting |  |
Picnicking |  |
Rafting |  |
Rogaining |  |
Ropes courses |  |
Sailboarding |  |
Scuba diving |  |
Shooting (recreational) |  |
Skateboarding/ rollerblading |  |
Skiing (snow): Cross country/Nordic |  |
Skiing (snow): Downhill |  |
Snorkelling |  |
Surfing |  |
Touring |  |
Waterskiing |
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It should be noted that activities that involve organised competition based on formal rules are, by definition, sports. Competitive versions of some of the above activities exist.
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