Favorite outdoor activity
 

I know. You people don't get outside very much.

So what makes it worth going outside for?

Do you play sports? Do you like yard work or gardening? Shoveling snow or raking leaves (what the hell is wrong with you)? Camping? Hiking?

What will make you nerds go out of doors?

Give me a quiet neighborhood, a bike, and a pleasant sunshine, I'd get out there and explore the land. And then get home with scratches, blisters, sore joints and sun burns. I tend to do an activity for hours without realizing it.

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I play basketball once a week. I go play trivia with friends once a week. I go to a board/card game night once a week. During the 3 months of the year that Oregon gets sun, I do a lot of hiking and camping. Occasionally I'll just go for a walk to clear my head if my roommate is getting on my nerves for some reason.

It takes an awful lot to get me to go outside, and it doesn't help that I have a brother and a roommate who prefer the couch to the sunlight. If the weather is nice, I enjoy walking over to the park near my office that has a duck pond. Once a year or so, I'll go up to Great Falls and hike a mile or so down the Potomac to get to the falls. I'm not athletic, so sports aren't my thing, and I don't know anyone who likes camping.

I don't spend nearly as much time outdoors as I should as a regular person, let alone someone doing a zoology degree. There are plenty of opportunities through societies to go on nature walks and all sorts of things like that but I'm literally so terrified of social interaction that I don't take advantage of them. I tried last year but it just fell through. I'm getting better at being around people lately though so hopefully this year I'll grow a pair. The only times I've voluntarily been outdoors for extended amounts of time in the past year or so have been festivals, bonfire parties and one drugged-up camping trip; I'm fine with people I know and/or intoxicants :annoyed:

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Camping is my thing. I would camp year 'round if I could. I would ditch all you losers and your space phones and go straight for the dutch oven over open flame. I'm in my element when I wake up with the sun, breathe the fresh air, and get straight to work.

I often wish I was a lot more fit just so I could climb to the peaks of mountains just to yell at the top.

I also like productive gardening and working outside. I love to watch a good garden grow, and I can think of very little that smells like dirt, wood, and fire.

I thrive best when outdoors, even in the wintertime.

Sass, I think I'm missing something here :(

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Does it mean something else over there?

Aaaah, that's much better to see :D Yeah, it means something else entirely :tpg:

I don't get out much in Montreal except to walk my dog, but when I'm back home in New Brunswick, swimming is my main outdoorsy activity, preferably in a river somewhere. Camping and just camp fires in general (we have a great spot at my folks' home) are also a very frequent activity for me when I'm back home.

If it counts, my friends and I love traveling. Whenever we can, we try to do road trips and stuff.

Since we're all decently husky as well, our road trips usually involve finding amazing food.

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A pack of $3 frisbees, 20-something friends, and a bunch of AcerBalls™ in that scenery. That'll get me outside.

I only go outdoors mostly in the summer. The rest of the year? Gotta go out with friends, and no, we don't go to the gym or involve ourselves in strenuous physical activity.

I'm kinda like mr Emperor, that I'm usually outside most in the summer. I like to go out for long runs in the woods and just hanging out in the sun and getting a nice tan and of course swimming whenever I can find the time.
In the wintertime I'm mostly lifting weights and making music in cubase and occasionally going out for a walk once in a while. I live in a pretty small city aswell so there's limitations on what to do here if you don't wanna get drunk every weekend.

I actually like being outside a lot. I'll use any excuse. I used to be pretty big into sports in middle school/high school. I did intramural in college. I like walking/jogging/hiking although I'm not that into backpacking or camping. I'm not one of those who's in love with nature and could spend all my time roughing it. Instead, I like getting fresh air and just looking at the natural world as much as possible.

I also started to get really into analyzing horticulture, agriculture, and ecology biology after reading some books on the matter.

What is this OUTSIDE YOU SPEAK OFF??

I used to hate going outdoors during the day. I was always more of a night life person (clubs, parties, etc) but I've been getting more into the habit of going out for walks or taking my gf's dogs for a walk. We even go out on hikes whenever we're not too lazy or it's not too hot out in the desert!

Well I enjoy going on weekend camping trips when it's an historical living history of quality. Other than that I am zombing out in the house and hissing at the daylight when someone opens the blinds...

Swimming is my main outdoor exercise, it is best to place in a river. Camping and camp fires is a very frequent activity for me when I get home.

Boating during outdoors makes us feel relax..:plant:

bicycling, swimming and motorsports(car racing) (in summer)
skiing (in winter)....

This is a bit of an old thread but since someone else already revived it I guess I will post as well...

Recently I've been spending quite a bit of my time playing tennis; usually around three days a week, two or so hours each of those days. I'm in a doubles league right now and I'm enjoying it immensely but I still prefer singles play the most. I plan on going back to that over the summer, although I may end up playing in both leagues. I'm a NTRP 4.5 player currently hoping to move up to 5.0 eventually.

I also love running, I usually run anywhere from 20-30 miles per week. I drive all over my town trying to find lovely places to run around, often getting lost in the process, as I find it boring to run the same route over and over.

I also enjoy taking my dog for walks around various parks around where I live.

Smoking cigarettes.

It's a nice break from inside.

Agreed. It's nice to get outside for a smoke and see something other than fluorescent office lights.

I'm more a fan of a joint outdoors though especially out in the woods somewhere. Everything just feels so peaceful and relaxing even if it is only a few minutes away from whatever I am working on.

Five days a week, I do a jog (well, mostly walk because of my bad heel lately) for four miles or so. Depends on the weather, of course.

As for me, hiking. Been to the mountains recently, which I hadn't done in a long time, and enjoyed every minute of it. The silence, the serenity, the beautiful sceneries, the satisfaction when you take a look back and realize how far you've come... after every excursion I'd study the map and ponder what to do next. Wish I could've stayed longer and explored absolutely everything in that valley.