Water sports and leisure activities France

Would you like to try your hand at coastal water walking (or longe-côte) during your stay in the Baie de Somme? Then La Rando Caouaise is the club to turn to! Everyone is welcome to try this popular coastal sport. Three types of outings are on offer: Santé (for beginners or those with health concerns), Remise en forme (for those who regularly go long-distance) and Cardiotonique (for those who want a more intense outing). All in a magnificent setting and a great atmosphere!

Mat & Eau Rafting is a small structure specialized in white water sports. The humor in the name we have chosen guarantees a good time. Mathieu Bresson, Lolo and their team of state-qualified guides offer you to discover activities such as rafting, canoe-raft (hot dog), kayak-raft (air boat), white water swimming (hydrospeed), aquatic trekking or canyoning. Requirements: be able to swim and be at least 8 years old (14 years old for hydrospeed). Special rates for groups and families.

A good address for all whitewater activities in the region, to be enjoyed with the whole family (including a special package for children aged 7 and over and "family" rates) and above all in complete safety with seasoned professionals: rafting, hydrospeed, cano-raft, air-boat... all whitewater sports on the Guisane and Romanche rivers. More than 15 years' experience for descents on more or less challenging courses. On the Pontillas lake, paddle and yoga for zen in the middle of the mountains. Picnic facilities available.

Long live the white water in the Serre-Chevalier valley! On the Guisane river, we leave with the family for a white water swimming course, in canoraft or with the air boat, exclusive to Rivières Évasion. Instructors passionate about beautiful rivers and alpine torrents will take you on board in complete safety to discover white water activities, from rafting to kayaking, canyoning and hydrospeed. Length and technicality adapted to the courses, availability and sympathy of the instructors, you will escape on the rivers. Possibility of welcoming people with disabilities.

Over 30 years' experience, supervision and equipment to make the most of the surrounding torrents, with most white-water activities: rafting, hydrospeed, hot-dog - inflatable canoe - or canyoning. This experienced office also organizes hiking tours to discover the flora and fauna, as well as via ferrata and quad biking. From the Durance to the Ubaye, via the Drac leisure park, the range is wide. We advise you to book a full day or even an adventure weekend.

Swimming in July and August except Wednesday, canoeing, board, sailing, fishing. Children's games, mini golf, tennis, hiking, mountain biking. Food, cooked dishes, bar, restaurant.

Fishing only.

This center is equipped with a heated 8 m diving pit and two diving boats. From 8 years old, accompanied by a team of professional instructors, discover scuba diving, apnea initiation or underwater trekking with fins, mask and snorkel. The most impressive: discover the many wrecks lying in the seabed of the Bay of Saint-Malo: German wrecks from the Second World War and steamers from the beginning of the century.

Created in 1848, the SNBS is one of the oldest clubs in France. It organizes events such as the 40' Malouine - Class 40 and participates in the organization of mythical races like the Route du Rhum. The club has many activities: light sailing, habitable and sea rowing. The sailing school offers activities all year round, with courses (windsurfing, J80, Topaz, Optimist, bug...), picnic days on the islands, evening events and family outings.

Supported by a team of qualified instructors and animators, this association offers various nautical activities: a beach club in the summer for 3-10 year olds (treasure hunt, fishing, trampoline...), "moussaillons" courses for 6-8 year olds (windsurfing and catamaran, treasure hunt, fishing), courses for 9-12 year olds (windsurfing, sand yachting, foam, mini-catamaran), courses and individual lessons in catamarans, windsurfing and sand yachting for adults and teenagers. Sailboats are accessible to people with reduced mobility.

It is of course a kayak. Simple discovery at the sporting hiking, Kraken offers packages to you according to your level and your needs: initiation sessions, walks water sports, hiking or themed tours of the sunset, among others. Kayaking Kraken offers outings on saturday afternoon and sunday morning, outings for a day or weekend. And, without any hint of chauvinism, practice this activity on the edge of the nearby coast, is a real treat. Strong emotions guaranteed!

The club benefits from an exceptional site for the practice of water sports at the end of the Ecluse beach. The sailing center offers courses adapted to your level, supervised by qualified and competent professionals who provide you with all the necessary equipment. Windsurfing, mini-catamaran, wingfoil, kayak, paddle, sea garden for the youngest and the "Point Passion Plage" which offers all water sports according to your tastes. Let's not forget the nearby Sunset bar which offers an exceptional sunset.

Generations of Dinardais have learned to swim in its Olympic basin (50 m x 17,50 m) heated seawater… Located opposite Ideally's main beach, the municipal swimming pool welcomes you all year round and offers a children's paddling pool, a 10-seat Jacuzzi, two saunas as well as a fitness area with cardio-training equipment and muscular reinforcement devices. By appointment, the swimming pool offers swimming and gym. Admission is free for children under the age of 5.

Facing the Mont-Saint-Michel, the nautical center offers various activities: sea garden, discovery of sailing for youngsters, optimist, catamaran, windsurfing as well as walks. You can take swimming lessons and rent a kayak or paddle. In winter, the center offers sailing lessons for adults. In summer, training courses are organized for children with the privateers' clubs (discovery of the marine environment, treasure hunt...).

Who hasn't dreamed one day of joining the dolphins? Thanks to Al Lark, this is possible! This association, which enjoys the support of Océanopolis, organizes boat outings in the bay of Mont Saint-Michel to let you discover, and allow you to observe, its marine environment. Al Lark has already identified 52 species of dolphins. There are also outings for fishing the bar.

If Massilia Plongée proposes, like all the structures, autonomous or supervised exploration dives on the most beautiful sites of Marseille, the master of the place, Mariusz is also a great specialist of tek diving. This is rare enough to mention. The training courses are well known and really very specialized, both for discovering this particular dive, which can be frightening, and for perfecting your skills at a high level. The center is located directly on the port of the Pointe Rouge, in fitted out containers where you will find all the conveniences: reception, showers, WC and changing rooms. Inflating is also done on site, for air, nitrox or even trimix. The boat is only a few meters away, ready to take to the sea for extraordinary dives. One of the rare addresses in the region for tek divers. Ultra-professional welcome and dive management.

The municipal sailing centre allows everyone, within the limits of available places, to practice sailing. The site hosts an educational centre for schools, a French sailing centre and a UCPA diving centre. The municipal sailing centre also cooperates with the educational centre for the sea during school holidays. Registration from 6 years old. There is no doubt that sailing will become even more important in Marseille in the run-up to the 2024 Olympic Games, which will see the nautical events taking place there.

Courses on catamaran, Optimist, HobbieCat and Pico Laser, the sailing school welcomes moussaillons from 5 years old. Internships are organised throughout the year, ranging from the simple contact of an Optimist to the HobieCat Twixxy catamaran regatta. For the most experienced, challenges are proposed by the SNEM in partnership with the clubs of the Estaque. Challenge of the Clubs clubs, Trophy of the charter charter, A man, a woman, a boat, The Regatta in Optimists. The club also offers sailing boats.

Being a member of the circle, the Rolls of Marseille clubs, is an unaffordable dream for many people in Marseille. An Olympic swimming pool, 2 other 25-metre pools, one of which is outside with seawater, a weight room, a sauna, a beach, a beach volleyball court and an exceptional panorama. Unfortunately, this dream has a price and is difficult for anyone to reach. Among the registered swimmers, the Cercle des nageurs marseillais has some great talents, champions. The CNM has one of the best water polo teams in Europe.

At the beginning of the Pointe-Rouge, every day in the beautiful season, you are here, palms for a good half day. The centre is open throughout the day and the store team ensures the telephone permanence from 8 am to 19 pm. Apart from explorations and courses, Evasion Sport also offers diving equipment and clothing, including through its «Balaena» store, a custom-made neoprene specialist and occase, including bottles.

Located in the residential area of Pointe-Rouge, 5 minutes from the coves and close to any trade, Atoll Club, whose instructors have been exploring for 24 years the most beautiful sites of the Marseille harbour, will make you discover the most unusual places of the seventy dives proposed. The Abbey Club is also 1 000 m ² of infrastructure to provide you with safe diving and a hosting place for up to 55 people.

The swimming pool of Frais vallon, located in a slightly outlying district, has the advantage of being very close to the metro, major roads and being very bright, thanks to the many portholes that run through its large mushroom-shaped structure, but which we call a sunflower pool. It should be noted that the roof is openable. Standard in size, the result of the national program for the construction of industrial-type swimming pools, launched in the early 1980s, its pool is 25 metres long and 10 metres wide. A large panel opens in summer to allow even more light to pass through. Although aging, the pool is well maintained. Only the schedules are inconvenient.

Close proximity, the swimming pool Charpentier is often frequented by firefighters whose barracks are adjacent. This may be of additional interest to some… For boys, however, between the nageurs and the firemen, the competition question is likely to prove impossible. Unless you are a Camille Lacourt in power. But sérieux a little bit. To make the most of this swimming pool, don't forget to comply with the safety and hygiene rules!

Established for almost a century at the Estaque, the Cercle de l'Aviron de Marseille is the sports association governed by the 1901 Act which took over the Marseille Marseille Circle. Originally composed of a rowing section, CAM has been enriched from a Boating section. The Cercle de l'Aviron de Marseille received the 3-star French School of Rowing for its qualities and collective values. Awarded by the French Federation of Rowing Societies, which regularly controls the criteria, this pledge of welcome, pedagogy, good equipment and security that makes the club pride, moreover discreet and good spirit in the regional races and championships. Club membership also includes access to a gym until 21 p. m. and after all these efforts you will have access, if you wish, to the club restaurant. This club is ideal for all those who have a crazy desire for a team break. Rowing is a sport where the French excellent on the international scene and by registering in the circle, which knows, you may become the new helm tricolore.

Sailing and Leisure are a group of owners of sailing boats whose key idea is to provide the boat, but also the skipper or train manager in a setting of discovery, sea, boat, nature in its shape leisure sailing. At the beginning of the Old Port, or L'Estaque outings are for all, so that the ones discover marine environment and the others improve or rediscover the touch of bar. On each sailing a skipper makes you share his sea spirit and human warmth and reports combine with joy of surfing. The stopovers and watered moorings of aperitifs and home cooking will take over swimming and savoury by large, relaxation and sun. Throughout the year, in roads of Marseille or coastal cruise, discover the îles du frioul, the blue Coast, the Calanques of Marseille and Cassis, the Green island, Embiez and the beautiful islands of Porquerolles and Port-Cros. Combine with the warm welcome that awaits you: the day will be unforgettable!

As of April 4, 2022, the Océane city can boast of having a Kitesurfing school led by an international champion! Samuel Michaille, winner of the Engie Kite Tour 2019, offers, this spring, to beginners as well as advanced, to practice their passion with experienced instructors. But the kite, what is it already? It's a paraglider-like sail connected to a surfboard in which the wind takes all its power to make you jump on the waves... Let's try !

Outside, there's an Olympic-size pool where regulars lap after lap, a family pool and a leisure pool where the little ones can enjoy sliding down the waterslides. There's also a delightful paddling pool with fun water games. All set in an immense shady, grassy park. It's a great place to relax with family and friends when the sun is shining! Numerous activities (aquagym, kayaking...) are organized in July and August.

In Chatelaillon, there is no shortage of water sports activities! Many of them crowd the sand to enjoy sea bathing, others prefer sailing. Then head for this sailing club, labeled Ecole de Voile, which welcomes children from 5 years old to discover the joys of sailing. Learning is done on a sheltered stretch of water, in complete safety to give your little ones a taste for the sea. Optimists, catamarans, dinghies... you can leave for the day!

With a pool of 12 m on 6 m and a depth between 0,20 m and 1,30 m, this small, particularly comfortable and light swimming pool is in fact reserved for ventilated centres, associations and groups. Water temperature at around 32 ° C is ideal for children and pregnant women. She is also receiving birth preparation courses as well as sessions of baby swimmers and family. A moment of awakening or relaxation for both the small and the big!

In a pleasant setting and a family atmosphere, the Laxou swimming pool has a large pool of 25 m by 10 m (0.80 m to 2 m deep), a small pool of 6 m by 10 m (maximum depth of 0.70 m), and a water garden for the little ones. Access for disabled people. In summer, outside, green spaces with a beach volleyball court. Activities: swimming lessons for adults and children (from 6 years old) and Aqua Forme (from 16 years old), including the amazing Aqua Paddle, three times a week in a specialized course. Practical: book your activity slots online.

On the right bank of the Meurthe, with a 100 m² terrace, the Lido swimming pool is ideal to recharge your batteries. A 25-meter sports pool (1.30 to 2 meters deep) and an introductory pool with water games (massaging benches, geyser, high-pressure jets, breaking shower), a paddling pool, a 40-meter slide, as well as a relaxation area (sauna, hammam and spa) and a fitness area with a fitness and weight training room, recently renovated. These two areas are accessible during the opening hours of the pool. Personalized coaching can be offered by appointment.

When the heat is intense, it's hard to find a quiet place at the pool, right? So, let us prefer the leisure grounds, certainly also attended, but with more important spaces. In Parigné, the water plan is located on the road to Ruaudin. Swimming is permitted and supervised in the high season, allowing you to take your children to the beach to make a dip. Some other possible activities: fishing, hiking, mini golf and children's games. The location is very pleasant to relax on the water or to make a picnic. A bar is opened in the summer and the national day's fireworks are there.

This club proposes to introduce to the pleasures of sailing through different activities: sailing school, sports, school sailing, internships, competition… From March to November, it is Isabelle who guides the school sail for the surrounding schools and groups. Every weekend of this period, the Sailing Club is open to equipment rental: canoes, sailboats, sailboats, catamarans… In the summer, the club hosts holiday camps and also offers the Descentes descentes. The departure is made in The Charter on the Loir.

This family-run business uses the Tarn gorges and their whitewater to develop a range of refreshing sports activities. Several descents, from 8 to 47 kilometers, from a few hours to several days, allow you to discover the area and its breathtaking panoramas. In addition to canoes and kayaks, paddles offer a different perspective on the river. Canoë 2000 also offers its customers supervised caving, canyoning and via ferrata, with routes to suit all ages and profiles.

This club offers various ways to practice rowing with a coaching of graduate instructors. Possibility of renting a boat for half a day as well as a day or for enrolling in internships - initiation, children and development.

Olympic-size pool, leisure pool, diving pit, waterslide, solarium, relaxation area: the whole complex is surrounded by a green outdoor area, perfect for laying out your towel. The removable roof opens in summer to let the sun shine in. The premises are very popular in summer. For this reason, you'll want to book off-peak times. The Stade Nautique also offers aquagym, aquafit and aquabike sessions. Bathing caps must be worn.

Auvergne Loisirs offers a wide range of outdoor activities. Its base is located on the banks of the Allier, and welcomes adventurers fond of canoeing or kayaking. The establishment also offers canyoning near Lake Chambon and paintball in Lempdes. From spring on, you can rent equipment for a day, half-day or several days. Supervised or free, these disciplines are for everyone, from novices to thrill seekers. Multi-activity or whitewater packages are prepared for specific requests.

The sailing base welcomes you on the Cheylé peninsula. It is possible to rent equipment on the spot for sailing or canoeing on the Garabit-Grandval lake (1,100 ha) nestled in the Truyère gorges. Here, there are no engines reserved for the nautical base of Garabit a few kilometres further upstream. The instructors will be happy to train you on one of the many courses. It is also a nice place to spend a pleasant time by the water and enjoy the animations in summer. The bar offers drinks, ice creams and sandwiches.

Located in the middle of a green park, the aquatic center offers a pleasant outdoor setting! Its equipment is quite adequate, with two outdoor pools, a paddling pool and a waterslide to swim but also to have fun. And nothing like it to relax after a walk in the mountains in the heat! It only closes at 7pm. Children can also have free access to the park's games. Groups are accepted. Swimming lessons are available. It's a great place for kids and parents!

Open during the summer period, the municipal swimming pool of Puymirol is located rue des Amours. Born from the will of the inhabitants, the pool was built in 1975. The site enjoys an unobstructed view, overhanging the ramparts where one can quietly admire the greenery of the Pays de Serres. What a pleasure to be able to refresh oneself in summer in the three pools! Because in Lot-et-Garonne, the heat can sometimes be overwhelming... The swimming pool is supervised and you have a terrace with parasols. You just have to enjoy it.

Le Théâtre d'Eaux, the swimming pool of Fumel, opens three pools, one of 25 x 15 m, a smaller one (12 x 8 m) dedicated to recreational activities, with benches on the side to enjoy the bubbling baths, and a paddling pool for the little ones. Beautiful landscaping, with green areas planted with trees, wooden fences, and 120 m² of mineral beaches and multiple water games: a perfect solarium for a relaxing break. A must for the summer!

After the Pont-Vieux coming from the city center, go down the stairs of the wash house to the nautical base. In this club, you have the possibility in summer to rent small boats like an electrically propelled gabarot (up to 8 places). You can stroll along the course of the Lot in complete peace: you can go as far as Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot! You can also rent canoes, kayaks... Water sports discovery courses for children from 8 to 16 years old. Lessons and initiation to rowing.

Located in the eastern part of the city centre, this water plan is especially popular with fishermen (fishing card for sale at the 10 St. Father's Garden, rue de Blandeau), as well as ordinary walkers. There are playground areas for children (string pyramid) and picnic spaces, as well as a ping pong table and a ball pitch. This reservoir pond located in "Petit Fay". It has an area of 6,7 hectares. This park offers the inhabitants of St. Father in Retz a new, privileged public space.

Built in 1975, the Dunois swimming pool, Signée, Tsaropoulos and J.P. Truck, is well-representative of the architecture of the time. Integrated into a sports ensemble with gym, its 25 x 12,5 m pool offers a view of a garden through the large windows. It offers gym courses, as well as special and collective swimming classes. The wall wall is covered in a mosaic, which was installed in 1978 by sculptor Maurice Kalka, evoking the sunset sun. Enjoy the visitors by leaving your most beautiful shirts, a mezzanine allows them to admire your kick!

The site of the Lac du Saut du Loup is a nature area that extends over 40 hectares. It includes a 12-hectare lake (swimming is not allowed), sports facilities, picnic and play areas, a restaurant, a village of cottages, a vacation center, a horse ranch... It is a paradise for fishermen (card holders), but also for walkers who can follow the banks or venture further into the forest. Perfect for oxygenation.

Lescouroux is an artificial lake designed to regulate the water supply of the Dropt river. With a surface area of 112 hectares and a 7 km-long promenade, the lake serves as an agricultural reservoir and is very popular with anglers (fishing permit required). Fishing is authorized according to the category of water (^2nd category lake) and the opening periods of the species sought. An ideal place for a family outing, a marked trail allows you to observe the life of the lake and the many birds present on the site.