53 Fun Outdoor Activities For Adults - The Lifestyle Blogger UK

Now that the summer weather seems to be making more of an appearance, it’s time to make the most of it and start doing some of the outdoor activities for adults from this list. Just remember to have fun, make some memories and let out your inner child!

In the UK, there are so many great places to visit, whether in large groups, with family members, as a couple, or even on your own. Whether you’ve got a summer holiday planned abroad, or you’re staying more local this year, here are some of the best outdoor activities to enjoy…

Active Outdoor Activities For Adults

Go Paintballing

Possibly not one everyone would want to do, but a great outdoor activity if you don’t mind a little pain and love the thrill of being chased! Paintballing could be a great team building event and a wonderful way to introduce new people.

Horse Riding

Horseback riding is a great sport which can not only keep you in shape but will also increase your confidence. You should ensure that you have the right equipment to take care of your horse provided by leading brands like Equi Supermarket.

This activity can also help you tone your inner thighs and pelvic muscles and improve your balance, as it requires a high level of coordination.

Drive Quad Bikes

There are so many places around that offer quad bike sessions, it should be hard to find something in your area. A great way to spend the day zooming up and down hills getting muddy.

Swing From The Trees At Go Ape

If you don’t mind heights, and being swung from branches, how about a day zip lining at a Go Ape? You’ll be hung from trees on ropes, made to walk across bridges in the sky, swing from tree to tree and even get to go down a zip wire.

Do A Skydive

Definitely not one for the feint hearted, but how about a skydive? It’ll be an experience to remember and what a thrill to fling yourself out of a plane!

Rock Climbing

Rock climbing is one of the best choices for a full-body workout that is just as good for your mental health as it is for your physical health. This activity can help you strengthen your legs, arms, shoulders, neck, back, glutes, and calves. It will also improve your flexibility and test your problem-solving skills and endurance.

Determining where to go next when you are hanging from a wall is a type of challenge that you are unlikely to find somewhere else. To ensure your safety, it’s best to learn how to climb at an indoor climbing centre where you will have qualified supervision

Spend The Day At An Amusement Park

If you’re looking for a thrill but don’t fancy launching yourself out of a plane, how about something a little closer to the ground such as a day at an amusement park instead.

Ride Segways

If you’re looking for something active, but with a slightly less intense thrill, how about having a go on a segway. You know, those things that kind of look like stand up bikes with just the 2 wheels at the front. Do you think you would be able to keep it up right?

Go Coasteering

If leaping off cliffs into freezing cold water sounds like fun, then you must give coasteering a go! There are many venues around the British coast that now offers this so hopefully there should be some not too far from you. Stick on a wetsuit and get jumping!

Jump Rope

If you love to be active, something like jump rope is not only a fun activity, it’s a great opportunity to get some exercise in at the same time. A great way to unwind and let off some steam whilst spending time outside in nature. Plus, jump rope is one of the most popular outdoor activities at the moment for physical activity to do at home. Step out of your comfort zone and get jumping!

Things To Do Outside With Friends

Host A Silent Disco

Instead of blasting your music out, annoying all of your neighbours, why not host a silent disco instead. You all have headphones connected to the same playlist, so you still get to dance together. You just won’t keep up the entire neighbourhood with your awesome tunes!

Have An Outdoor Movie Night

Creating an outdoor movie, or cinema night in your garden is actually much easier than you might think. All you need is a projector and a white sheet for your film to be shown on. If you have a rope you can tie from one side of your garden to the other (depending on the size) this would be perfect to hang your sheet on.

Then perhaps get some tasty treats, and hang a few fairy lights around your garden to really make it look special.

Go Camping

Whether you decide to go camping in your back garden, or go somewhere further afield on an outdoor adventure, camping is a great outdoor activity to do with your friends.

You could even get a campfire going and toast marshmallows over it, while listening to scary stories!

Sit In A Pub Garden

On a lovely sunny day, a great thing to do outside is to sit in a beer garden with friends and have a good old catch up and a laugh.

Go To A Food Or Drink Festival

Outdoor activities for adults doesn’t have to just mean being active, you could go for a relaxing wonder around a food or drinks festival. Soak up the atmosphere, and try some great tasting food and drink with friends.

Go To A Music Festival

If food and drink isn’t really your thing, how about going to a music festival instead. Whether you go for a day, or a weekend, camp, or stay in a local hotel. A music festival can be one of those outdoor activities you do with friends and make some incredible memories.

Host An Adult Sports Day

Why should the get kids get all the fun when it comes to team sports? If you and your friends love to play outdoor games and be super active, how about an adult sports day – it could be so much fun!

You could do – a two legged race, an egg and spoon race, have a limbo competition, sandbag tossing…etc. Of course, you will need some kind of trophy or prize to give the winner – perhaps you could make it an annual event?

Host A Drinks Party

Take it in turns to make your own cocktail or mocktail, either based on classic recipes, or from your own imaginations. Take it in turns to try each other’s drinks, and make it a friendly competition by scoring elements of the drink, such as flavour and visual presentation.

Organise An Adult Treasure Hunt

Hide a series of objects, or clues for your friends to find with a prize at the end for the team that gets back first. Perhaps you could create clues for each team to find in your local area or town (you don’t want to make it too easy). Each clue leads on to the next and the team that gets back first is the winner.

Have A Round Of Crazy Golf

If you and your friends love to play golf, proper golf, then perhaps a day out on the green would be enough. However, if you don’t have golfing mates, perhaps a round or two of mini, or crazy golf could be more fun.

Things To Do Outside As A Couple

Go On A Hike

Whether you’re new to hiking, or a bit of a novice, you could organise a trek with your partner to see some breathtaking views. Or simply to go on an adventure. Perhaps you could pack a little picnic lunch and make a romantic day out of it.

Go Skinny Dipping

OK, so perhaps not one that everyone would be up for doing. But what a way to get a cold thrill! Just make sure you aren’t going to get caught!

Go On A Hot Air Balloon Ride

There’s nothing more romantic than going up in a hot air balloon with your partner. Watching the sunrise as you gently float across the sky, as light as a feather. Going wherever the wind takes you – and hopefully the pilot!

Have A Picnic Date

Pack a bag with all your favourite snacks and treats and go on a romantic picnic date with your partner. Lie out on the picnic blanket, snoozing, or having a chat, relaxing and taking in the beautiful scenery.

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Go Sightseeing

People generally don’t go sightseeing in their home town, or city, because it’s right there. Why not take some time out together and be tourists in your area. You could even pretend you don’t know the area and walk around as though you’ve never been there before. Properly take in all it has to offer, while spending some quality time with your partner.

Watch The Sunset

Depending on whether you’re a early morning rise, or a bit of a night owl, you could set aside some time to watch either the sunrise, or sunset with one another. Fingers crossed you get a good where where the sky looks as though it’s on fire!

Things To Do Outside Alone

Sun Bathe In Your Garden

Relax in the sunshine by yourself and soak up some rays – responsibly of course, with sunscreen!

Go Bird Watching

If you love nature, why not go out bird watching for the day by yourself. Take a bird book and your camera and see what you can find amongst the trees and hedgerows.

Do An Outdoor Workout

Roll out your gym mat, put on your headphones and do one of your favourite workouts. Whether you follow along to a youtube video, or make it up as you go along. Exercising in the great outdoors can be so refreshing and exhilarating.

Meditate Or Try Yoga

If you don’t enjoy jumping around and getting sweaty, perhaps you could do a yoga session, or some meditation instead. Grounding yourself, listening to your breathing and focusing on being in the moment.

Do Some Nature Photography

Whether you have an expensive camera, or you just use your smartphone, taking photos of nature can be so relaxing.

Explore your creative side and try experimenting with different angles and close up shots. You never know, you might just realise you’re an expert at it!

Read A Book

Lounging in your garden with a great book can be great way to spend some alone time. Especially if you never get time to sit down and read. Perhaps you could even finish off that book you’ve been trying to read for the last year!

Things To Do Outside On A Rainy Day

Relax In A Warm Outdoor Jacuzzi

An outdoor pool, or jacuzzi can feel completely different when it’s raining. The warmth of the water, mixed with the cold fresh rain can be an amazing experience for the senses. If you haven’t yet tried it, you really must, especially if you love the water – or the rain!

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Go For A Walk In The Rain

Another great thing to do on a rainy day is to go for a walk in the rain. Wrap up warm and make sure you’ve got your waterproofs on. Put on your favourite podcast or playlist. Or you could even go without and simply listen to the rain as it bounces off your jacket.

Another great thing about walking in the rain is that there are hardly an other people around. You could even jump in a few puddles where you’re there – let your inner child come out!

Things To Do Outside On A Sunny Day

Take A Trip To The Beach

There is o better place in the world on a sunny day than at the beach. The fresh salty air, the sand between your toes and the sound of the lapping waves. You could even go for a quick dip if you’re brave enough to embrace the cold water! You could even top it off with an ice cream, or a bag of fish and chips on the rocks.

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Host A Murder Mystery Day

True crime seems to be all the rage these days, with true crime podcasts being some of the most listened to. So, why not host a murder mystery day in your back garden on a beautiful sunny day.

Have A Water Fight In Your Back Garden

Of course, you can’t have a hot sunny day in the garden without having a water fight of some kind. Whether you get the hose out, or you fill up some water bombs and water pistols and properly go for it!

Go Pedal Boating

Go for a pedal boat ride somewhere near you. Most larger areas of water offer this, especially if it’s in a known tourist area. A great way to see the sights in a very different way!

Have A BBQ

There’s nothing better than smelling the waft of a BBQ on a hot summer’s day! An outdoor activity for adults and kids that’s a little more relaxed. OK, perhaps don’t actually let the kids look after the BBQ, but they’ll love eating what you create!

Try Paddle Boarding

If you haven’t yet tried paddle boarding, you really must! If you love the water it really is a great way to relax and unwind. However, don’t be fooled as it is a bit of a workout as well, especially if there’s some wind, or waves!

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Go For A Swim In An Outdoor Pool

There’s something quite different when it comes to swimming in an outdoor pool, it’s almost more refreshing somehow. Plus, they are often less hectic and crowded than indoor pools. Just check before you go to see if it’s a heated pool or not!

Also, if you decided to try swimming in a lake, or the sea, make sure you don’t go alone and do you research to make sure it’s safe to swim there.

Things To Do Outside With The Kids

Make Daisy Chains

OK, so you don’t have to be with a child to do this, it just looks better if people see you! It can be such a relaxing thing to do, a calming activity to perhaps finish off the day with.

Fly A Kite

If there’s enough wind, you could spend the afternoon flying kites with your friends, or even with the kids. Watching the kite dance around in the sky, zooming around from side to side, as though trying to escape your clutches!

Create Chalk Drawings On The Patio

Creative outdoor activities such as chalk drawing perhaps? If you have a patio area, or even a flat path, chalk drawings are a great way for kids to delve in to their creative side. The bonus being, as soon as it rains, they will get washed away. revealing a new blank canvas for the next round of drawings!

Conduct Science Experiments

Things like putting mints into a bottle of coke and seeing how high up you can make the explosion go. Or, making your own slime. Such simple things to do but so fun and what a great way to make some memories with the kids.

Go Looking For Bugs

If you don’t have much of a budget to work with, perhaps something as simple as looking for bugs in your garden with the kids could be a great outdoor activity. Identify all of the different creatures you have in your garden.

Perhaps they could even try to draw what they find or find it in a book about bugs. If you have a pond or a stream near you, perhaps you could go looking for marine life too.

Things To Do Outside On A Budget

Make A Bug Hotel

Creating a bug hotel is actually pretty cheap to do – if not free! Get creative with any left over materials in your back garden, and start making. make sure you leave lots of gaps for both larger and smaller animals to make themselves at home. Once you’ve made your bug hotel, go on a scavenger hunt looking for residents.

Go To The Park

Life can get so busy these days that sometimes we can forget the little things, like spending the day at your local park. Seeing how high you can go on a swing, how fast you can go down the zip wire, or how long you can hold on to the monkey bars. Outdoor activities don’t have to be expensive or lavish, they just need to be fun!

Go Cycling

Get some fresh air and go for a bike ride. Whether you go for a bike ride alone, with friends, family, or just the kids, it can be a great way to spend the day. Plan your route before you leave and set off on a little adventure. Perhaps stopping off somewhere along the way for a picnic, or for a few photos of your surroundings.

However, if you go alone, make sure someone knows where you’re going to be and let them know when you leave and get home. Just incase!

Do Some Gardening

Kids love to feel like they are doing important jobs, and few activities are more rewarding than tending to plants and watching them grow together. Whether you grow a bee-friendly flowerbed, a vegetable patch, or a succulent garden, gardening is fun for both you and your kids. Plus, they might even learn some new skills.

Go Fruit Or Berry Picking

OK, so this isn’t one you can do all year round, especially if you live in the UK but if you like fresh fruits, you can’t get fresher! Check the various different fruit and berry picking months and see if you can plan a berry picking trip. Just be careful you don’t eat all of your harvest before you finish!

Do A Garage Declutter

Perhaps not one of the most fun outdoor activities for adults to do, but sometimes it just needs to be done! If it isn’t going to rain, empty the garage out completely and start going through everything you have. You could even create keep, thrown away and charity piles to make it easier for you when it comes to tidying up at the end.

Visit A National Park

There are so many amazing places to visit in the UK, some probably on your doorstep that you had no idea where there! Visit the National Trust website where you’ll find an extensive list of all their sites, with opening times…etc. Go adventuring back in time to a historic site, or wander through some of their national forests on a nature walk.

There are only 50 things on this list, there are so many more things to do but hopefully, this will give you a good place to start. Whether you’re looking for new places to go exploring, fun activities to try, or you simply want to spend some more time outside, the great outdoors will do so much for both your physical and mental health.

Which of these outdoor activities for adults would you love to try first?