Every season has its own charms. And if in summer during the holidays you can play beach volleyball or go surfing, in winter you can keep yourself in great physical shape with no less active and useful winter sports. Skiing, skating, sledding, snowboarding are just a few of the sports you can do in winter. There are less known, but no less useful and interesting winter sports, which we will tell you about next.
Winter Windsurfing
Another sledge with a sail attached to it is called a windsurfing sled. However, sleds as such are not quite ordinary: they roll on three steel skates. The best way to ride a sailing sled is on a flat, icy surface in moderately windy weather.
Skijoring
Skiing in which a person is towed by a horse, a pair of sled dogs or even a deer. If a horse is used as a tow, the animal can either be driven by the skier himself or the rider.
Ice Karting
Kart racing on frozen ponds or indoors. You can engage in this sport at any age. The main condition is that the ice must be strong enough (if it is a body of water). Take part in Ice Karting competitions can be in Lapland.
Winter Polo
Until recently, this type of winter activity was considered more of a performance than a sport. Nowadays, however, winter polo is actively developing in countries where there is a sufficient amount of snow, including Russia. As a rule, all the proceeds from the competitions go to the development of sports sections for children.
Ice Climbing
Climbing on the glaciers, so to speak. A kind of mountaineering, but instead of the steep cliffs – icy rocks. The level of risk due to the fragility of the ice is increased, so, compared to conventional rock climbing in this sport, the probability of falling several times greater.
Snowkiting
Kiteboarding (or kitesurfing) can also be practiced in winter. In addition to a kite (an inflatable guided kite) and a board, you also need snow. And of course the wind, thanks to which the skiing is a lot of fun.
Broomball
If we replace hockey players with shoes, brooms instead of clubs and ice hockey balls instead of pucks, we get broomball – an exotic hockey game. Competitions in this sport are held in many countries.
Ice Diving
Diving under the ice is done with great care. This winter sport can be engaged only the owner of a fairly good skills diver. Ice diving has its own special charms: firstly, the ice sheet over the head of the diver – is already a masterpiece of nature, and secondly, the charms of the unique underwater world will impress even the most severe skeptic.
Skibiking
Wrong one who thinks that in the winter on the street on a bicycle is nothing to do. If you equip it with skis, you get a great vehicle for winter walks.
Dog-Team
Nordic peoples have long used dog sledding as a means of transportation. Dog sledding is available wherever there is snow, sledges and sled dogs.