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Urban sports can be described as unusual and are performed in busy urban settings. Discover dangerous sports such as BASE jumping and parkour.

Featured Article:  How Urban Gaming Works

People everywhere are putting location-based technology to innovative use creating "experiences" in public settings that are part game, part performance art, and part sociology experiment. Find out about urban gaming. See more »

Are there real-life fight clubs?

Are there real-life fight clubs?

At the end of the day, do you like to unwind with a cold drink? Perhaps a bubble bath or a nice, long walk? If beating someone to a bloody pulp is more your style, you may be in luck: A real-life fight club could be just a Web search away.

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Fact or Fiction: Fight it out!

Fact or Fiction: Fight it out!

Today we shall see if all that training, gaming and movie watching have paid off. Can you know the difference between real martial arts maneuvers and fictional ones? In this quiz you shall face both. Fight!

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How BASE Jumping Works

How BASE Jumping Works

For BASE jumpers, leaping out of an airplane at 15,000 feet and free-falling at well over 100 mph isn't quite daring enough. They look for more unique ways to test their limits -- stunts so risky that they're actually illegal in many places.

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How do you do a back flip in a wheelchair?

How do you do a back flip in a wheelchair?

Sports like skateboarding and BMX have been evolving since the first skateboards hit the streets in the 1970s. The latest invention: extreme sitting. What does it take to turn a wheelchair into an extreme sport?

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How Parkour Works

How Parkour Works

What if a morning jog didn't involve training for a marathon or wearing short shorts? What if it meant creative individual expression through acrobatic moves like leaping from walls and over gaps doing ground rolls and precision jumping?

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How Urban Gaming Works

How Urban Gaming Works

People everywhere are putting location-based technology to innovative use creating "experiences" in public settings that are part game, part performance art, and part sociology experiment. Find out about urban gaming.

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What are urban explorers?

What are urban explorers?

In a world aglow with electric lights and jam-packed with skyscrapers and cities, are there still uncharted territories left to explore? Sure -- the buildings and tunnels that no one uses anymore. How do urban explorers find adventure in concrete jungles?

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What are wife-carrying contests?

What are wife-carrying contests?

Cocky husbands may brag that, financially speaking, they carry their wives. But can they literally carry her... over fences, through 3-feet-deep water -- 250 meters?

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What is zorbing?

What is zorbing?

It looks like the Goliath of beach balls, it contains a passenger and it's rolling down a grassy hill. What's it like inside one of these giant spheres?

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