Orienteering is not only a competitive sport, but also a military sport, as well as a leisure, entertainment, tourism and adventure sport. Therefore, it involves social, political, military, economic, scientific, fitness and entertainment and other aspects of significance and value, such as holding targeted festivals for cultural propaganda and promoting tourism development; Popularize the knowledge of knowing and using maps by the whole people through directional movement and strengthen national defense construction.

But as far as personal value is concerned, it is a good quality training or quality education project. As mentioned above, orienteering has been vigorously promoted in the education system, not only because it is a good sports project, but more importantly, it is a good quality education project.

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1, directional movement can be divided into two types according to different sports tools;

(1) Orienteering on foot: such as traditional orienteering; Relay orientation; Overall orientation; Orientation at night; Five-day positioning; Park orientation, etc.

(b) Tool orientation: such as skiing orientation; Mountain bike orientation; Motorcycle orientation and so on.

2. Orienteering can be divided into men's group and women's group according to gender;

3. Orienteering can be divided into youth group, old age group and juvenile group according to different ages;

4. Orienteering can be divided into primary group (experience group and family group), advanced group and elite group according to different technical levels;

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