The top 40 outdoor pursuits Brits want to try in 2025 revealed
The top 40 outdoor pursuits Brits want to try in 2025 revealed
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THE top 40 outdoor pursuits Brits want to try in 2025 include foraging, stargazing, and wild swimming. A poll of 2,000 adults revealed 64 per cent are motivated by a desire to reconnect with nature. As such, natural world-inspired pursuits feature prominently in the list, with the likes of rockhounding – collecting rocks, minerals, and fossils, nature journaling, and wildlife photography all featuring.
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Other popular wildlife-inspired pursuits for the year ahead include fishing, horseback riding, and swimming in natural pools. Along with hiking, cycling, zip-lining, and archery, and running or trail running, cross-country road trips, beachcombing, and outdoor yoga.
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Kristian Cholmondley, managing director of Jeep UK, makers of the Avenger Electric, which commissioned the research, said: “It’s clear Brits are increasingly seeking ways to reconnect with nature, which speaks to our fundamental need to escape the digital world and embrace the physical world around us.
"The research highlights how much people value outdoor activities that not only offer the opportunity to experience freedom and adventure, but also to improve mental health and wellbeing.”. The study also found 77 per cent of adults are ‘likely’ to try one or more outdoor pursuits during the coming months - and they’d be willing to travel an average of 39 miles to do so.
It emerged 81 per cent are ‘particularly’ interested in outdoor pursuits which are nature orientated. With other motivations for getting out and about including to relax (50 per cent), to boost or maintain mental health (43 per cent), and to get fitter or maintain fitness (38 per cent).
