Adventure racing is a combination of two or more endurance disciplines, including orienteering (if an orienteering map is used) and/or navigation (when non-orienteering maps are used), cross-country running, mountain biking, paddling and climbing and related rope skills. An expedition event can span ten days or more while sprints can be completed in a matter of hours.
- Paddling: kayaks, canoes, out-riggers, rafts and tubing.
- Traveling on wheels: Mountain bikes, kick-scooters, in-line skates or roller skates.
- Beasts of Burden: Horses and camels.
- Catching Air: Paragliding or hang-gliding.
- Covering Terrain: Orienteering, mountaineering, swimming, canyoneering and riverboarding.
- Learning the Ropes: Ascending; rappelling, traversing (zip line).