Extreme sports worksheeet

1. EXTREME SPORTS
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Extreme sports is a term for certain activities considered
having a high level of ...................... There are several
characteristics common to most extreme sports:
- More solitary than traditional ..................
- Beginning extreme athletes usually don’t have of a coach.
- A higher number of uncontrollable variables that are often
related to ...................... and terrain (such as wind, snow, water
and mountains).
The biggest extreme sport ..................... is the X Games,
organised every year in the US.
Extreme sports can be divided into five groups:
1. ..............................: Snowboarding, sandboarding, windsurf,
kitesurfing, riverboarding, river surfing, surfing, flowboarding,
skysurfing, skateboard, mountainboarding, snowskate,
wakeboarding,
2.................................: motorcross, snowcross, rallying,
drifting, motorcycle rally
3. ...............................: ice climbing, rock climbing, bouldering,
canyoning, free solo climbing
4...................................: paragliding, parachuting, bungee
jumping, wingsuit flying, hang gliding
5. ........................: mountain biking, BMX, inline skating, free
diving, cliff diving.
Name the sports on the right.
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