Field sports

Field sports are

Field sports are considered nostalgic pastimes, especially among country folk. 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
• Hillwalking, mountaineering, canyoning and caving
• rappelling and tree climbing
• Equestrianism (horse racing, polo, show jumping, dressage, etc.)
• Falconry
• big game hunting, fowling
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  • Bowhunting
• big game fishing
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• Shooting sport
  • Field shooting (metallic silhouette, long-range, field target, etc)
  • Clay pigeon
  • Plinking
  • Meat shooting
  • Rook shooting
  • Field archery
• 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

Some field sports, especially hunting and fishing, involve the catching and/or killing of wild animals (collectively referred as "

See also

• Countryside Alliance
• The Field magazine
• Field & Stream magazine

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