Whilst looking for something on the internet the other day, we came across a little titbit of trivia which made us raise our eyebrows. Did you know the word zorbing is in the Oxford English Dictionary? Am I being a language puritan when I say I was quite surprised at this? After all, it’s just another extreme sports short-lived craze isn’t it?

Well I’ve been proved wrong. It seems zorbing has been officially ‘a sport in which a participant is secured inside an inner capsule in a large, transparent ball which is then rolled along the ground or down hills’ since 2001, when it first appeared in the dictionary.

Still doesn’t detract from the fact that you’d have to be mad to let anyone roll you down a hill in what is effectively a hamster ball, even if it is given the fancy name of a zorb.

Thinking zorbing was just for mad Aussies and Kiwis only, a closer inspection on the internet appears to show there are now zorbing centres the length and breadth of the UK, so it looks like this latest craze called zorbing is here to stay, seeing as it’s in the dictionary and all!