Easdale’s stone-skimming title is thrown with the same slate that once defined the island’s industry, across a quarry the miners left behind.

The styling product is spring water, the salon is Arctic air, and the finished hairdo can stand straight out like a white coral reef.

In Willaston, victory goes to the team that persuades the ground to surrender the most worms.

At Looe Key, snorkelers put their ears underwater and find the reef has a soundtrack.

Japan's ISU-1 Grand Prix sends teams around street courses on wheeled office chairs propelled by their feet.

Noche de Rábanos is an annual Oaxaca competition built around elaborate scenes carved from oversized radishes.

Oulu's annual competition judges imaginary guitar performances and promotes the slogan Make Air, Not War.

At the World Bog Snorkelling Championships in Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales, competitors wear a mask, snorkel, and flippers through a water-filled peat trench.

The Henley-on-Todd Regatta in Alice Springs, Australia is a boat race on a bone-dry riverbed.