Outdoors is a general term where recreation activates such as camping or hunting take place.

The Great Outdoor Games is an annual event on ESPN showcasing the top outdoor athletes.

Outdoors may refer to wilderness which is generally defined as a natural environment on Earth that has not been modified by human activity.

Hiking is a form of walking, undertaken with the specific purpose of exploring and enjoying the scenery. It usually takes place on trails in rural, wilderness, or outdoor areas.

There are 680 separate wilderness designations in the United States, from Florida’s Pelican Island at 5 acres to Alaska’s Wrangell-Saint Elias at 9,078,675 acres (36,740 km²).

Outdoor sports available for participation varies from season to season.

Deer hunting is a popular outdoor sports in the United States.

The first National Park was Yellowstone, established in 1872. The creation of this and other parks showed a growing appreciation of wild nature, but also an economic reality. The railways wanted to entice people to travel west.

Other sports are sports which are not popular worldwide, but have a small population of dedicated fans.

The fastest growing sports organization in America is Nascar.

Sportsmanship is defined as “conduct and attitude considered as befitting participants, including a sense of fair play, courtesy toward teammates and opponents, a striving spirit, and grace in losing.”

There are 4 players who have recorded quadruple doubles in NBA history. Nate Thurmond, Alvin Robertson, Hakeem Olajuwon and David Robinson.

A regulation bowling pin need only tilt 7.5 degrees to fall over.

Pittsburgh is the only city where all major sports teams have the same colors: black and gold.

Cal Ripkin Jr. played in 2,632 consecutive baseball games.

President Andrew Jackson’s favorite sports/hobbies were billiards, swimming, and walking.

Orienteering is a running sport involving navigation with a map and compass.

Traditional form (sometimes referred to as “Foot Orienteering” involves cross-country running, though other forms have evolved.

The course of control points is kept a secret from competitors before the start, when they are provided with a detailed topographic map on which the course is marked.

The competition is a timed race in which individual participants use a special purpose map and a magnetic compass to navigate through diverse terrain (often wooded) and visit, in sequence, control points that are indicated on the map.

The English name derives from the Swedish word “orienteering”. The term was first used to describe the sport in 1918 by Major Ernst Killander, then President of the Stockholm Amateur Athletic Association, in publicity for competitive meet held in Sweden.

Orienteering originated in Scandinavia, as a military exercise, in the late 19th century. The competitive sport form began in Norway where the first competition was sponsored by the Tjalve Sports Club on 31 October 1897 and held near Oslo.

World championships were held biannually from 1961 to 2003, and are now held every year.

Efforts begun in 1996 to promote the inclusion of orienteering in the Olympic games have so far been unsuccessful, although orienteering became a sport in the World Games in 2001, and is a sport in the Summer Deaf Olympics.

Online sports games refer to sports video games that are played over some form of a computer network, most commonly played on the Internet.

Online sports games started in the 1980s with MUDs, simple multiplayer text-based games, often played on a BBS using a modem.

As the World Wide Web developed and browsers became more sophisticated, people started creating browser games that used a web browser as a client. Simple single player games were made that could be played using a web browser via HTML and HTML scripting technologies (most commonly JavaScript, ASP, PHP, and MySQL.

You can play multi-player bowling game on candystand, which was a pioneer for sports games.

Many consider fantasy football to be an online sports game.

Advances in browser-based technologies have allowed the creation of browser-based MMORPGs, using similar as other browser-based games.

Due to current technology limitations, browser based games cannot bring the same graphical or sound quality that custom-client MMORPGs can. Browser-based MMORPGs tend to be a little cheaper than full-blown MMORPGS.

Online sports games are one of the most popular types of online games.

Netball is a team sport similar to and derived from basketball. It was originally known as “women’s basketball” and developed in the United States, and while basically unknown in its homeland, is the pre-eminent women’s team sport (both as a spectator and participant sport) in Australia and New Zealand.

Like basketball, the game is played on a hard court with scoring rings at both ends, and with a ball resembling a basketball (but lighter, smaller and slightly softer in construction, and usually white in color).

The hoops, whilst of similar height and dimension to basketball hoops, do not have a “backboard”.

There are seven players on each team, who are given nominated, named positions. In competitive netball, each player must wear “bibs” or “patches” showing the abbreviations below, indicating their position.

The field is divided into thirds which regulate where individuals in each team are allowed to move, and two semi-circular “shooting circles” at each end from within which all scoring shots must be taken.

Mens netball teams exist, but are uncommon. Most teams are all woman.

A game is played in four quarters, each one lasting 15 minutes, with intervals of three minutes between the first and second quarters, and between the third and fourth quarters.

Netball rules do not permit players to take more than one step in possession of the ball. Consequently, the only way to move the ball towards the goal is to throw the ball to a team-mate. The ball cannot be held by a player for more than three seconds at any time.

A multi-sport is a sport in which athletes compete in a number of different sports such as triathlon.

The first modern multi-sport event organized were the Olympic Games, organized by the International Olympic Committee (est. 1894) for the first time in 1896 in Athens, Greece. After some badly organized celebrations (1900, 1904), the Olympics became very popular. The number of sports, initially only a few, is still growing.

The sport of aquathlon consists of a continuous, two-stage race involving swimming followed by running.

Biathlon (not to be confused with duathlon) is a term used to describe any sporting event made up of two disciplines. Biathlon, however, usually refers specifically to the winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.

Duathlon is an athletic event that consists of a running leg, followed by a cycling leg and then another running leg in a format bearing some resemblance to triathlons.

A heptathlon is a sportive contest made up of seven events (from the Greek hepta (seven) and athlon (contest)). More specifically, the term heptathlon refers to an athletics event consisting of seven events.

A triathlon is an athletic event made up of three contests (from the Greek).

A triathlon is typically a combination of swimming, cycling, and running.

A motorcycle is a two-wheeled vehicle powered by an engine. Motorcycles are one of the cheapest and most widespread forms of motorized transport for many parts of the world.

On a typical motorcycle the driver sits on a seat, with the hands on a set of handlebars and the feet supported by foot pegs.

When the bike is at rest, the rider puts one or both feet on the ground. Engine speed is controlled by twisting the throttle on the right handlebar grip with braking being controlled with a hand lever and foot pedal.

Shifting of gear ratios is controlled by operating a foot lever with the clutch being operated by a hand lever. Steering is accomplished by moving the handlebars.

The inspiration for the earliest dirt bike, and arguably the first motorcycle, was designed and built by the German inventors Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in Cannstatt (since 1905 a city district of Stuttgart) in 1885.

Almost all commercially available motorcycles are driven by conventional gasoline internal combustion engines, but some small scooter-type models use an electric motor, and a very small number of diesel models exist.

The Displacement is defined as the total volume of air/fuel mixture an engine can draw in during one complete engine cycle. In a piston engine, this is the volume that is swept as the pistons are moved from top dead center to bottom dead center.

The wheel rims are usually steel or aluminum (generally with steel spokes and an aluminum hub) or ‘mag’ type cast or machined aluminum. At one time, motorcycles all used spoke wheels built up from separate components (see wheel building), but, except for dirt bikes, one-piece wheels are more common now. Performance racing motorcycles often use carbon-fiber wheels, but the expense of these wheels is prohibitively high for general usage.

Motocross (often shortened to (MX) or MotoX) is a form of motorcycle racing or all-terrain vehicle racing held on enclosed off-road circuits and is widely considered the world’s most popular form of motorcycle racing.

Motocross tracks are often quite large (around 1 to 2 miles) and incorporate natural terrain features with varying amounts of man made jumps and other features.

It is not unheard of for a Motocross track to be made up entirely of hills and turns with no jumps at all. In contrast Supercross is an entirely man made track, comprising almost exclusively of a wide array of jumps and typically held in an indoor stadium.

Due to the size of the track, motocross races typically include 40 racers, in contrast to Supercross where it is only practical to have about 25.

Solo machines have engines ranging from 50cc to 550cc.

The most common distinction between motocross machines is whether they have two-stroke or four-stroke engines. Originally all bikes were four-stroke (in the Pre-65 era), but as the two-stroke engine improved they became more popular with their domination of the sport in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. The two-stroke engine produced more power than a four-stroke engine of the same capacity (cc), however fuel had to be mixed with oil.

The object of the contest is to complete either a defined number of laps (usually three to seven for amateurs, more for professionals) or fixed time period (anything up to 40 minutes) first.

Motocross can be an entry sport for motorsport in general. Classes for children as young as 4 exist for competition on 50cc machines.

Martial arts are systems of codified practices and traditions of training for combat. Today, martial arts are studied for various reasons including combat skills, sport, fitness, defense, self-cultivation, mental discipline, and building self-confidence.

Today, martial arts are studied for various reasons including combat skills, fitness, self-defense, sport, self-cultivation (meditation), mental discipline, character development and building self-confidence.

Worldwide there is a great diversity of martial arts. Broadly speaking, martial arts share a common goal: to defeat a person physically or to defend oneself from physical threat. In many martial arts, training goes beyond fighting to include personal, mental, and spiritual development.

A practitioner of martial arts is referred to as a martial artist.

The native peoples of North America had their own martial training which started at childhood. Many Native American men considered themselves warriors and trained to use the bows, knives, blowguns, spears, and warclubs.

Capoeira, with roots in Africa, is a martial art originating in Brazil that involves a high degree of flexibility and endurance. It consists of kicks and sweeps, although modern Capoeira has incorporated punches and arm strikes.

Each martial art has its own history and goals.

Taekwondo is a modern Korean martial sport, with literal meaning “the way of the hand and foot”. Along with Judo, one of only two Asian martial arts to make it into the Olympic Games.

A lumberjack is a tradesman in the logging industry, who performs the harvesting of trees for lumber.

Originally started as a competition in the old lumber camps to see who was the best lumberjack, today these competitions are used to keep old forestry and logging traditions alive.

Many colleges have woodsmen or forestry clubs, which compete regionally, nationally, and internationally, while there are also professional competitions in which anyone can be , along with the highly selective STIHL Timbersports Series which airs on TV.

Events may include old-time logging skills such as log rolling and high-climbing.

There are also lumberjack shows which tour the United States, demonstrating these old time lumber practices to the general public.

Loggers rodeos are also held in some towns which demonstrate these events to the public.

The American Lumberjack Association is group of sportsmen and women dedicated to furthering, upgrading and standardizing lumberjack sports.

Mike Forrester won the 2005 American Lumberjack Association all-around championship.