United Kingdom: number of outdoor watersport participants in 2018, by activity

In an annual survey, conducted with 12,790 adult respondents in 2018, the most popular watersport activites in the United Kingdom (UK) were established. According to the survey, roughly 10 million people in the UK spent some leisure time at the beach in 2018. The number of beach goers has significantly increased in recent years, by more than 30 percent in four years. The next most popular activities are coastal walking and outdoor swimming.Recreational boating Around 690 thousand households in the UK own a boat, of which roughly half are either a canoe or a kayak and about a fifth are sailboats, followed by motor boats and windsurfers. Boating participation in the UK kept stable with slight fluctuation with approximately 7.3 percent of people in the UK going boating in 2018. The majority of boating in the UK takes place in the South East and West, followed by Scotland and the North West.Swimming Swimming participation has slightly decreased in England to roughly 4.5 million people who go swimming at least twice a month. However, overall in the UK, outdoor swimming participation has gradually increased from 4.2 million people in 2015 to 6.1 million people in 2018, who went swimming outdoors at least once during the year.

在2018年进行的一项年度调查中，针对12,790名成年受访者，确立了英国（UK）最受欢迎的水上运动活动。据调查，2018年约有1000万人次的英国民众在海滩度过休闲时光。近年来，海滩游客数量显著增加，四年内增长了30%以上。次受欢迎的活动为沿海徒步和户外游泳。休闲帆船运动在英国，大约有69万家庭拥有船只，其中大约一半为独木舟或皮划艇，约五分之一为帆船，其后依次为机动艇和风帆板。英国的帆船参与度保持稳定，略有波动，2018年约有7.3%的英国民众参与帆船活动。英国的大多数帆船活动发生在东南部和西部，其次是苏格兰和西北部。游泳方面，英格兰的游泳参与度略有下降，约450万人每月至少游泳两次。然而，在英国整体而言，户外游泳参与度自2015年的420万人逐年增长至2018年的610万人，这些人在年内至少进行了一次户外游泳活动。