Extreme Sports: Vocabulary & Activities

Extreme sports are sports that are generally thought of as having a high level of danger. These sports usually involve speed, height, a lot of physical exertion, and also great skill. A lot of the extreme sports we are going to look at today gained popularity in the 1990s, but many of these sports had been around before that time.

With this presentation you will learn a lot about extreme sports.

from Sergio Viñ

At this link you can find the basic vocabulary of extreme sports with translation into Catalan and Spanish. In addition, here you have a video from the British Council with amazing images.

Activities and games:

• Games at MiniClip
• A maze by the British Council
• Games.com offers you lots of games about extreme sports
• Snowboarding by Addicting Games
• 2D Play and its games

Extreme Sports

Originally, adult sports involving a high level of danger and adrenaline that would not appeal to most people but attract a daring few: things like skydiving, bungee jumping, rock climbing, ice climbing, technical mountaineering, hang gliding. It generally did not include sports which were "extreme" in their early years but since became mainstream (e.g., downhill skiing or scuba diving), nor did it include children's and teenager's activities like BMX or skateboarding. Extreme sports originally meant adult and non-mainstream. Later (from the late 1990s on) the meaning changed to become synonymous with non-dangerous kiddie sports and the definition has more to do with age (and with marketing energy drinks, Mountain Dew, baggy pants, and punk and thrash music), much to the chagrin of older folks involved in dangerous sports who now would rather the term would go away.

Here you have links to different extreme sports:

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For more information see the Wikipedia.