Outdoor sports jobs

Activity Jobs
Sitting around by a pool not your thing? A job leading activities for adventure holidays could be more up your street.

Canoeing - Kayaking
Includes sea kayaking, white water kayaking, open canoeing, paddling holidays, retailers, manufacturers, clubs and societies.

Caving - Canyoning
Exploring caves and the challenge of exploration attracts many, but small dark holes deep underground are certainly not for everyone! Cavers clubs, caving gear, cave training al require employees. Canyoning as many of the similar skills.

Climbing
Climbing is basically using your hands and feet to move up the surface of a steep object. Rock climbing is the most familiar form of climbing but there are other types such as ice climbing and buildering. Mountaineering is just using various climbing techniques to ascend mountains. Climbing walls in the UK require qualified instructors, and here are climbing holidays worlwide requiring staff to lead and cater for holiday-makers.

Country Sports
Country and field sports includes hunting, shooting, fishing, falconry along with ferreting and dog trailing.They are generally lead by social groups but there are also trips, excursions and tourism around the sports which require an employment base.

Cycling
There are many recreational activities using the bicycle from touring and sightseeing to BMX racing on purpose built tracks. Around the world cycling holidays and organised events are asd around some beautiful spots.

Extreme Sports
Sky diving, bungee jumping, base jumping, paragliding and free running (a fairly new sport seen in the opening chase scene of the James Bond movie - Casino Royal) are all adventure and adreneline chaser activities.

Fishing
Modern fishing is both a recreation and professional sport with various conventions, rules and restrictions. The listings include fly fishing, course fishing and sports fishing.

Horse Riding
Horse riding trips are popular in Argentina, and other traditional trecking locations.

Off Road Motor Sports - Off Roading, Motocross and Trial Riding
Off roading is a simple a term for driving four wheel drive vehicles such as Landrovers and ATV's off road. Drivers pit their skills against all kinds of natural terrain. Motocross uses specially built motorcycles and is fast, dirty and often dangerous. Trial riding is a non-speed event, the idea being to ride a natural obstacle course without touching the ground.

Kites - Kite Surfing
Kite Surfing is a rapidly growing new sport.

Powerboats, Zap Cats and Jet Skis
Power boats and Jet Ski's are capable of high speed and excellent maneuverability and are like motorbikes on water.

Sailing - Windsurfing
Sailing has traditionally ben seen as a leisure activity for the rich. There is still an element of that with luxury sailing boats and trips very costly. Increasingly sailing has opened up to a wider range of people. Many sailing clubs are also windsurfing clubs indeed windsurfing does use many of the sailing techniques. Jobs exist in instruction as well as onboard jobs as crew.

Scuba Diving - Snorkeling
Scuba actually comes from Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus. Dive training, operators, boat charter, diving holidays, dive gear, spearfishing and freediving all require staff in the UK and further afield

Shooting - Archery
Game shooting, rifle shooting, shotgun sports like skeet, trap and clay pigeon shooting.

Skateboarding
Skateboarding is an urban sport.

Surfing & Wave Ski Surfing
Surfing has existed in Hawaii for over 200 years but it is only since 1960 that it has evolved into a worldwide phenomenon.

Walking - Running - Scrambling
Hiking is an excellent outdoor activity for the whole family. The scenery attracts many holiday makers and there are tourism jobs supporting the economy in areas of the UK and further afield.

Water Skiing - Wakeboarding
Water skiing was invented in the early 1920's. Beginners using two skis are pulled along at speeds of about 25-35 kilometers per hour. Wakeboarding developed as a combination of water skiing, snow boarding and surfing techniques and the towing speeds are less.

White Water Rafting
A thrilling leisure activity and maybe a dangerous sport.

Wilderness - Survival - Bushcraft
Useful survival skills include finding shelter, making water safe to drink, making fire, finding food along with treating injury and tool making.