The activities covered by our travel insurance

Take a look at the fun holiday activities our different travel insurance policies cover you for.

Standard activities

You're automatically covered to do any of these activities on an amateur basis while on a trip.

Archery
Badminton
Banana boating
Baseball
Basketball
Body and boogie boarding
Bowls and bowling
Camel and elephant riding as part of an organised event
Canoeing, kayaking and rafting - grade 1 and 2 waters only
Cricket
Cruises - as a passenger on an organised trip
Curling
Cycling but not BMX or mountain biking (other than normal road cycling using a mountain bike) or racing
Dingy sailing no more than 3 miles from the mainland

Fishing
Football (including soccer, 5-a-side, Gaelic, Footbag, Hacky Sack, indoor and beach)
Go-karting if you wear a helmet and follow the organiser's guidelines
Golf
Ice skating on a rink and not speed or inline skating
Jogging or running
Orienteering
Paintballing if you wear eye protection
Parascending or parasailing over water (once only and only if fully supervised)
Pony trekking
Rambling
Roller skating and roller-blading
Rowing no more than 3 miles from the mainland

Safari trekking as part of an organised tour
Scuba diving to a depth of 18 metres if you are diving with another person and you both hold a certificate of proficiency, but not within 24 hours of a flight
Skateboarding if you wear a helmet
Sledging or sleigh riding if you are a passenger and being pulled by dogs, horses or reindeer
Snorkelling
Softball or rounders
Squash
Swimming no more than 3 miles from the mainland
Table tennis
Tennis
Trekking, hiking or fell walking up to 2,500 metres
Volleyball

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Adventure activities (Premier cover only)

With our Premier cover, you're also covered to do these activities on an amateur basis while on a trip.

Abseiling if fully supervised
Boating and sailing or yachting up to 12 miles from the mainland
Canoeing, kayaking and rafting up to grade 5 waters (including white waters)
Clay pigeon shooting if fully supervised
Dry slope skiing if wearing a helmet
Fencing if supervised by a qualified person
Horse riding if wearing a riding hat/helmet
Hot air ballooning as a passenger

Jet skiing but there is no personal liability cover for this activity
Land sailing or land yachting but there is no personal liability cover for this activity
Mountain biking if wearing a helmet and as part of an organised group
Quad biking wearing a helmet, not racing and as part of an organised group, but there is no personal liability cover for this activity
Rock climbing wearing a helmet and fully supervised or qualified
Sailboarding

Scuba diving to a depth of 40 metres if you are diving with another person and you both hold a certificate of proficiency, but not within 24 hours of a flight
Surfing and flowriding
Trekking and hiking and fell walking up to 6,000 metres
Ultimate frizbee
Wakeboarding
Water polo
Water skiing
White water rafting up to grade 5 waters
Windsurfing
Zorbing or sphereing following organiser's instructions

If you can't find the activity you want to do above, please contact us with the details as we may be able to cover you for it.

Winter sports activities (optional cover)

You're covered for:

skiing
big-foot skiing
cross-country skiing
mono-skiing

glacier skiing
indoor skiing
Sledging and tobogganing
Snowboarding

snowblading
Snowmobiling / skidooing but there is no personal liability cover for this activity

Going off piste

You're covered to ski and snowboard off piste provided you're within the ski area boundaries of a recognised ski resort and are following ski patrol guidelines.