DK Travel : Orlando : Outdoor

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Orlando Magic

Don’t miss the NBA team if it’s the season.
Orlando Predators

Grab a chance to support the local arena football team.
Orlando Rays

See the local minor league baseball team in action.
Ralph V. Chisholm Park

This shady park, on the shore of East Lake Tohopekaliga, has various amenities including a beach, swimming area, horse trails, children’s playground, softball and baseball fields, sand volleyball courts, and picnic pavilions. Bring your own equipment, food, and drinks.
Sammy Duvall’s Watersports Centers

These Disney World-based centers were founded by four-time world champion water-skier Sammy Duvall. The Contemporary Resort branch offers parasailing, water-skiing, wake-boarding, knee-boarding, and tubing. Guests can either rent a boat and driver or take lessons. The slalom course is geared to more hardcore water-skiers. Guests can bring their own gear or rent it.
Silver Spurs Rodeo

Two days of rodeo events for cowboys and girls in Kissimmee.
Speedweeks

Two weeks of motor action at Daytona Beach, ending with the Daytona 500.
Surfing

In land-locked Orlando? You bet. According to the state’s surf addicts, who sometimes rent the park after hours, Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon has wave-making down to a fine art. But you don’t have to be a pro to give it a try. Carroll’s Cocoa Beach Surfing School puts on a twice-weekly class for beginners.
Swimming

Most of Orlando’s hotels have their own pools, but for a change of scene and a place to swim serious lengths, try an aquatic center. (see YMCA Aquatic Center).
Tennis

Disney’s Contemporary Resort has six hydrogrid courts and its Grand Floridian Resort & Spa has two clay ones. The nearby Grand Cypress Raquet Club has 12 courts, four of them all-weather.