Field sports
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Field sports are
.Field sports are considered nostalgic pastimes, especially among country people. For example, participants of field sports such as riding and fox hunting in the United Kingdom frequently wear traditional attires (British country clothing) to imitate landed gentries and aristocrats of the 19th-century English countryside.
Types
- Hiking, backpacking and camping
- Cross country/trail running and mountain biking
- rappelling and tree climbing
- Equestrianism (horse racing, polo, show jumping, dressage, etc.)
- Falconry
- big game hunting, fowling)
- big game fishing)
- Shooting sport
- Rowing/sculling, paddling (canoeing, kayaking, rafting), punting and paddleboarding
Environmental issues
Field sports, by definition, involve activities away from typical human settlements, which implies entering into natural areas usually devoid of human presence. Such encroachments can potentially cause
habitat loss
.
Some field sports, especially hunting and fishing, involve the catching and/or killing of wild animals (collectively referred as "
big game hunting
.
See also
- Countryside Alliance
- The Field magazine
- Field & Stream magazine
References
- Oxford Dictionaries. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
- Macmillan Dictionary. Retrieved 25 September 2014.