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  2. Parasailing - Wikipedia

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    Parasailing, also known as parascending, is an activity where individuals are harnessed to a modified parachute canopy that is designed to ascend into the air when towed behind a motor vehicle on land, or a recreational boat over water.

  3. Parasailor - Wikipedia

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    Parasail on a Sun Odyssey 43. The Parasailor and Parasail are patented and trademarked variants of a spinnaker sail for yachts. They were designed for cruising couples and short-handed crews and are considered to be easy to handle and well tempered. [1] These sails make it possible to use one sail as spinnaker and Gennaker. These sails can be ...

  4. Powered paragliding - Wikipedia

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    Two powered paragliders in flight Powered paraglider at a Kanagawa beach in Japan, 2022. Powered paragliding, also known as paramotoring or PPG, is a form of ultralight aviation where the pilot wears a back-pack motor (a paramotor) which provides enough thrust to take off using a paraglider.

  5. Paragliding - Wikipedia

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    Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure. [1]

  6. List of water sports - Wikipedia

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    Parasailing, where a person is towed behind a vehicle (usually a boat) while attached to a parachute; Picigin is a traditional Croatian ball game that is played on the beach. It is an amateur sport played in shallow water, consisting of players keeping a small ball from touching the water.

  7. White-Miskell Act - Wikipedia

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    The White-Miskill Act for Parasailing. [1] is a law enacted by the legislature of the State of Florida in 2014 for the control of the sport of parasailing.It relates to commercial and recreational water activities prohibiting certain water activities within some areas and specifies the requirements for the operator of a vessel engaged in commercial parasailing.

  8. List of surface water sports - Wikipedia

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    Two tubers. Tubing, also known as biscuiting, is where a large, usually circular, rubber tube is towed behind a boat at fast speeds.The general aim is to hold on as long as possible without falling off due to the boat's sharp turns; more experienced biscuiters also try to jump the boat's wake and become airborne.

  9. Ewa Wiśnierska - Wikipedia

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    Ewa Wiśnierska, née Cieślewicz (born 23 December 1971, Nysa, Poland), is a Polish paraglider, [1] a member of the German national paragliding team, who won the Paragliding World Cup on several occasions.