Caving Indoors or Outdoors?

[ChrisDavies73]

Caving has a roof (usually) so is it an indoor or outdoor activity?


When asked what I like doing I say being outdoors, but then when caving I go in?

 

[cap n chris]

What if the cave doesn't have a door, though? Also I guess you might need to specify the characteristics which define a door.. Does it need to be set in a door frame? Does it have to have a handle? Etc. My 2p is that unless you enter through a door you're still technically outdoors even if you're beneath a natural rock arch of significant complexity.

 

[TheBitterEnd]

Climbers talk about roofs, is an overhanging cliff indoors?

This is something of a silly bit of semantics, it is perfectly possible for a term like "outdoors" to have a meaning other than the literal meaning of the constituent words. Caving is an adventurous activity with all the trappings and requirements of other outdoors pursuits.  Outdoors is a term used to distinguish those activities from activities done in sports halls etc., or other things (off-roading, dogging) which are carried on in vehicles and the like.

Is football or Wimbledon an outdoors pursuit?  I think we use the term in the sense of "The Great Outdoors", i.e. natural, not man-made, as opposed to sports conducted on a specially created surface.

 

[TomTom]

I define indoors and outdoors by considering how easy it is to make a cup of tea 

 

[graham]

I know numerous show caves and at least one wild cave in West Virginia that are entered through doors that are within buildings. 

 

[Alex]

Well then, caving is covered under the CROW act as it's an outdoors activity 

 

[shotlighter]

Has anyone ever heard of caving being referred to as an "indoor pursuit" :-\

 

[Blakethwaite]

Well then, caving is covered under the CROW act as it's an outdoors activity 

Well, not all cave necessarily  fulfils this criteria! 

I think we use the term in the sense of "The Great Outdoors", i.e. natural, not man-made, as opposed to sports conducted on a specially created surface.

 

[Peter Burgess]

I bet if you had to live in a cave, you wouldn't call it outdoors!

 

[Ship-badger]

You need outdoor activity insurance if you offer caving as an activity, so it must be an outdoor activity. But seriously, what a daft question. But I like it.

 

[ah147]

If caving is considered as an outdoor pursuit as there is no door and straight access to the open air, what happens after you pass a sump?

 

[Blakethwaite]

Probably some sort of rectal reconstruction surgery...

 

[TheBitterEnd]

   

 

[bograt]

Well then, caving is covered under the CROW act as it's an outdoors activity 

'Open Air' is the crux.

 

[ChrisDavies73]

Tis a daft question but as a bit of fun the answers are interesting.

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[robjones]

Despite entering Narnia via a door, no one would say that the forests, castles and mountains of Narnia were 'indoors'.

Similarily, numerous walled gardens are entered via a door.

Even though some caves are entered via doors (or are they solid rather than barred gates? - e.g. OFD) I cannot conceive of any cave being 'indoors'.

 

[Laurie]

Similarily, numerous walled gardens are entered via a door.

They would be technically 'gates'.

 

[graham]

Despite entering Narnia via a door, no one would say ...

That it was anything other than fiction. 

 

[owd git]

Despite entering Narnia via a door, no one would say ...

That it was anything other than fiction. 

Bugger !!
My legal defence for being found in wardrobes looks a little thin now.

 

[graham]

Despite entering Narnia via a door, no one would say ...

That it was anything other than fiction. 

Bugger !!
My legal defence for being found in wardrobes looks a little thin now.

Yeah, but do you pee in them or are you a child molester like that Tumnus chappie?