Free cover on selected adventure activities

The following activities are covered under personal accident & personal liability, and have a standard medical excess.

  • Amateur athletics
  • Archaeological digging
  • Archery
  • Badminton
  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • Bridge walking (supervised by a fully-trained guide)
  • Bungee jumps (three jumps)
  • Cat skiing
  • Cave tubing or river tubing
  • Cricket
  • Cycling
  • Golf
  • Husky sledge driving
  • Jogging
  • Marathons
  • Mountain biking (not including downhill racing and extreme terrain)
  • Netball
  • Orienteering
  • Parasailing
  • Parascending (over water)
  • Rambling
  • Refereeing (amateur basis)
  • Rollerblading (inline skating and skateboarding)
  • Running (sprint and long distance)
  • Safari
  • Sand boarding
  • Scuba diving (qualified, maximum depth 30 metres) under 14 days
  • Sleigh rides (part of a Christmas experience trip to northern Europe)
  • Snorkelling
  • Squash
  • Surfing
  • Swimming
  • Tennis
  • Trekking (under 2,000 metres altitude)
  • Triathlons
  • Volleyball
  • Wake boarding
  • Water polo
  • Water skiing
  • White or black water rafting (grades 1 to 4)
  • Zorbing

Winter sports activities are automatically covered as standard on annual policies. For non-annual policies, if you want winter sports cover it can be added as an optional extra. The following activities are covered: cross-country skiing, glacier walking or trekking (under 2,000 metres altitude), ice skating, mono skiing, off-piste skiing, off-piste snowboarding, recreational ski or snowboarding racing, skiing, snowboarding and tobogganing.

The following activites are subject to additional coverage fees, call 0844 888 3900 to find out more.

  • American football
  • Assault course
  • Battle re-enactment
  • Breathing observation bubble diving (maximum depth 30 metres) under 14 days
  • Cascading
  • Coasteering
  • Flying (piloting private or small aircraft or helicopter)
  • Gliding
  • Gorge swinging or canyon swinging
  • Gorge walking
  • Hang-gliding
  • High diving
  • Horse jumping (not polo or hunting)
  • Hydro speeding
  • Kite surfing (over land)
  • Manual labour (at ground level, no machinery)
  • Martial arts (training only)
  • Micro lighting
  • Motorcycling (over 125cc - not racing)
  • Mountain biking (including downhill racing and extreme terrain)
  • Mountain boarding
  • Ostrich riding or racing
  • Parachuting
  • Paragliding
  • Parapenting
  • Parascending (over land or snow)
  • Quad biking
  • Rock climbing (not mountaineering)
  • Rock scrambling
  • Rugby
  • Sand yachting
  • Scuba diving (qualified, maximum depth 40 metres) over 14 days
  • Scuba diving (qualified, maximum depth 50 metres) under 14 days
  • Scuba diving (unqualified, maximum depth 30 metres) under 14 days
  • Sea canoeing
  • Sea kayaking
  • Shark diving (inside cage)
  • Skydiving
  • Tall-ship crewing
  • Via ferrata
  • White or black water rafting (grades 5 to 6)
  • Yachting (racing or crew) outside territorial waters