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air sports

n. (air sport English)

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Air sports

The term air sports covers a range of aerial activities such as:

  • Aerobatics
  • Aeromodelling
  • Ballooning
  • General aviation including air racing
  • Gliding
  • Hang gliding
  • Human powered aircraft
  • Parachuting
  • Paragliding
  • Power Kites

The sports inserted above are governed internationally by Fédération Aéronautique Internationale and at the national level by aero clubs such as the National Aeronautics Association and the Royal Aero Club. The FAI web site contains lists of these national organizations. In some of the categories listed above are lightweight classes which can be alternatively grouped as Ultralight aviation.

Other aerial activities are not governed by the FAI rules

  • Wingsuit flying
  • Rocket Racing League is an attempt to create a new airsport

Usage examples of "air sports".

From her office she could just make out the heavily wooded park and prim white houses, there were schools and light manual industries, an open-air sports amphitheatre, a technical college, the artists' colony.

Rocky Valley is intended for rest, relaxation, open-air sports and for generally having somewhere to get away from it all.