Travel insurance cover for sports and activities

If you are planning to take part in any sports or activities whilst you are away it is important to make sure that they are covered by your travel insurance. If the sport or activity is not covered and you need medical treatment as a result of taking part, you could end up footing the bill.

Travel insurance from Sun Selection provides cover for a number of sports and activities as standard, including fell walking, rambling and trekking, scuba diving to 18 metres and water skiing on inland or coastal waters.

You can also add extra cover for more adventurous sports and activities to your policy. This can be done at the time of purchase or added afterwards.

How to add cover for hazardous activities or sports

To add cover for hazardous activities and sports, simply get a travel insurance quote and choose between Silver, Gold or Platinum cover. You will then be able to add cover for additional activities on our policy options page.

We can cover the following sports and activities, simply find your chosen activity then add cover for the relevant category to your travel insurance policy.

Hazardous activities: Category A – included as standard

• Aerobics
• Archery
• Badminton
• Basketball
• Beach games
• Bowls
• Cricket
• Cycling (but not BMX and mountain bikes)
• Fell walking, rambling and trekking
• Fishing
• Ice skating (rink only)
• Parascending (towed by boat)
• Rafting, canoeing and kayaking (including white water up to grade 3)
• Roller skating
• Scuba diving (to 18 metres)
• Skateboarding
• Snooker, pool and billiards
• Snorkelling
• Squash
• Surfing
• Swimming (in a pool or in inland or coastal waters within a 12-mile limit from land)
• Table tennis
• Tennis
• Volleyball
• Water-skiing (only in inland or coastal waters within a 12-mile limit from land)
• Windsurfing (only in inland or coastal waters within a 12-mile limit from land)
• Yachting, boating and rowing (only in inland or coastal waters within a 12-mile limit from land)

Hazardous activities: Category B

Cover for these activities can be added to your policy if you are aged 75 or under.

• Boxing training (no contact)
• Bungee jump - No PA cover
• Camel/Elephant riding
• Cycling touring
• Deep sea fishing
• Dog sledging
• Flying a private plane or small aircraft
• Flying as a passenger in a private or small aircraft
• Go karting (specific use)
• Gymnastics
• Hiking (between 2000 and 6000 metres altitude)
• Hockey
• Horse riding (no polo, hunting, jumping)
• Hot air ballooning (non-UK organised)
• Hydro zorbing
• Kayaking
• Manual work (ground level only, no machinery)
• Martial arts (training only)
• Motorcycling (over 125cc – no racing) as a rider or passenger when wearing a helmet provided that the rider holds the appropriate UK motorcycle licence to ride the motorcycle.
• Mountain biking
• Quad biking (no racing)
• Rugby
• Safari (not involving use of firearms)
• Scuba diving (between 18 and 30 metres)
• Sea Canoeing
• Trekking (between 2000 and 6000 metres altitude)
• White water canoeing/rafting (grade 4)
• Work abroad (manual, ground level only, no machinery)

Hazardous activities: Category C

Cover for these activities can be added to your policy if you are aged 75 or under.

• Abseiling
• American football
• Gliding
• Outdoor endurance events
• Parachuting
• Paragliding
• Parascending (over land)
• Sail boarding
• Sand boarding
• Sand yachting
• Skiing
• Skiing (dry slope)
• Sledging
• Snow boarding
• Snow kiting
• Snow mobiling
• Show shoeing
• Snowboarding (dry slope)
• White water canoeing (grade 5 to 6)
• White water rafting (grade 5 to 6)
• Yachting (racing/crewing) – outside coastal waters

Hazardous activities: Category D

Cover for these activities can be added to your policy if you are aged 75 or under.

• Animal riding (other than specified)
• BMX Cycling
• Bob Sleighing
• Canyoning
• Hang gliding
• Heli skiing
• High diving
• Horse jumping (no polo, hunting)
• Ice hockey
• Land yachting
• Luging
• Manual work (including the use of light machinery)
• Micro lighting
• Motor rallies
• Parasailing
• Rock climbing
• Rock scrambling
• Scuba diving (between 30 and 40 metres) if BSAC, PADI, DIWA, SSI or SAA member
• Show jumping (no polo, hunting)
• Skate Boarding
• Sky diving
• Tobogganing
• Wrestling

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