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• Recreation


  Any activity that takes place during your free time
• Recreation


  • Does not follow standard rules
  • Can be done anywhere
  • Gives enjoyment and self-satisfaction
• Recreare


  Latin word meaning to be refreshed, to relax or to enjoy
• Participation in recreational activities varies from one person to another depending on one's intention, reason or belief
• Types of recreational activity

  • Passive recreational activities
  • Active recreational activities
• Passive recreational activities


  Little exertion of effort or energy, but is generally sustained. Examples include watching television, listening to music or reading books.
• Active recreational activities


  Exert more energy and effort. Examples include jogging, swimming, hiking, biking or gardening
• Classification of recreation


  • Spectator type
  • Participant type
• Spectator type recreation


  People spend their time watching the event and derive enjoyment from it
• Participant type recreation


  People do not gain enjoyment merely by watching, they do so by joining the activity
• Aquatic recreational activities


  Excellent option in maintaining physical fitness as they can improve your cardiorespiratory endurance, muscle strength, and bone strength while you have fun in the process
• Aquatics


  All sports activities in water (swimming, water polo, diving and synchronized swimming) that take place in water and have different rules
• Swimming strokes


  • Freestyle
  • Butterfly
  • Breaststroke
  • Backstroke
• Freestyle stroke


  The fastest stroke, also known as the front crawl. It requires coordination of the legs and the arms in conjunction with the movements of the head and breathing.
• Butterfly stroke


  The hardest to execute but the most fun to watch. It involves the person propelling their body through the water by spreading their arms out like wings above the water and paddling back under the water.
• Breaststroke


  One of the slowest moving swim techniques, but one of the most suitable for long distance swims. It engages the forearms, chest, and upper back more than any other swim style.
• Backstroke


  Popular for recreational swimmers who like to watch the clouds in the sky. The face never goes below the surface of the water for recreational swimmers.
• Basic skills every swimmer needs

  • Breathing properly
  • Sculling
  • Coordinating your actions
  • Learning strokes
  • Diving
• Breathing properly


  Involves breathing out through both nose and mouth when face is underwater, then lifting head to the side and taking a full breath before plunging face back down
• Sculling


  Gives a feel for moving through the water and keeps you from sinking. It's one of the first safety skills beginners learn.
• Coordinating your actions


  Beginning swimmers often find themselves messily chopping through the water with their limbs. It takes time to get a feel for moving your limbs in time.
• Learning strokes


  Once you feel confident with basic swimming skills, mastering a specific stroke is the next challenge. Breaststroke is ideal for beginners.
• Diving


  One of the necessary swimming skills, even if it starts outside of the water. Always practice diving in a deep pool with a lifeguard on duty.
• Types of water sports

  • Kayaking
  • Surfing
  • Wakeboarding
  • Snorkeling
  • Water aerobics
  • Freediving
  • Scuba diving
• Kayaking


  A water sport that involves paddling using a double-bladed oar and a small boat known as a kayak.
• Surfing


  A surface water pastime in which the wave rider, referred to as a surfer, rides on the forward part, or face, of a moving wave, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore.
• Wakeboarding


  A water sport in which the rider, standing on a wakeboard, is towed behind a motorboat across its wake and especially up off the crest in order to perform aerial maneuvers.
• Snorkeling


  The practice of swimming on or through a body of water while equipped with a diving mask, a shaped breathing tube called a snorkel, and usually swim fins.
• Water aerobics


  The performance of aerobic exercise in water such as in a swimming pool. Done mostly vertically and without swimming typically in waist deep or deeper water, it is a type of resistance training.
• Freediving


  A form of underwater diving that relies on breath-holding until resurfacing rather than the use of breathing apparatus such as scuba gear.