You'll be all at sea on this watersports holiday on the Greek island of Lefkas. Parents and children aged over 10 can spend a week learning to sail, windsurf, scuba dive, sea kayak, water-ski and wakeboard on an Active Adventures programme with Wildwind Holidays. From May to October, a seven-night stay costs from £674 per adult and £549 per child, based on two adults and two children sharing, including return flights from Gatwick to Prevesa, overseas transfers, beachside hotel accommodation and all activities.
Anyone for tennis? Or, indeed, golf, rugby, football and cricket? Then sign up at one of the sports academies at La Manga Club near Murcia in Spain. The five-star resort is full to the brim with first-class facilities – golf courses, tennis courts, cricket and football pitches – and professional coaches are always on hand to help sharpen up you and your children's sports skills. Design Holidays is offering a wide range of week's packages at the hotel from £599 per person.
Take part in the Bushman Olympics, four days of sporting fun at Bushmans Kloof wilderness and wellness retreat in the Cederberg Mountains in South Africa. While the adults head out on game drives, kids can sample a variety of sports, including archery, table tennis, canoeing, and fly-fishing. And their efforts will be rewarded at an exciting Olympic-style prize-giving and photo ceremony. Three nights' accommodation and meals, all activities, and games drives costs £575 for adults and £230 for children with ToEscapeTo. Flights and transfers cost extra.
Get the kids windsurfing on a villa holiday in Sardinia. Essential Italy has teamed up with expert sea-farers to teach windsurfing, kite-surfing and sailing to families with children from the age of five. Short or longer intensive courses are available, with prices ranging from €100 for a two-day windsurfing workshop to €300 for a five-day course for guests staying near Porto Rafael on Sardinia. For example, you could base yourself at Villa Casa Wasa, a waterside property that sleeps seven and has its own private jetty, from £3,240 per week in summer. Flights and transfers cost extra.
Ground anchors, bouldering, holding falls... Your kids will be teaching you a thing or two about all these terms after a week's Climbing Adventure with PGL at Boreatton Park in Shropshire or Osmington Bay in Dorset. The course – which includes enrolment on the National Indoor Climbing Achievement Scheme – is structured to suit different age groups between seven and 16 years of age, and takes place over seven half-day sessions of climbing and rope techniques and five half-day sessions of fun activities using climbing walls, abseiling towers, trapeze, zip wire and Jacob's Ladder. From £549 per child, this price includes full board with accommodation in dormitories, kit, instruction, evening entertainment and general childcare.
Are you heading to Barbados between 2 and 26 August? Then the kids can take part in the free Barbados Sports Camp (www.barbadossportscamp.com) run by the Barbados Tourism Authority. Football, cricket and netball will be taught to 9- to 17-year-olds by sporting legends from Gladstone Small to John Salako.
Your kids will become street savvy on an urban sports course. Book them onto a week-long residential holiday with Camp Beaumont and they can learn to skateboard, rollerblade and scooter at the purpose-built skate park at Grosvenor Hall in Kent. Suitable for 7- to 17-year-olds, a week costs from £545 per child, including all-inclusive accommodation and activities – childcare vouchers are even accepted.
Sporty families will find plenty to occupy their time at the Activity Centre in Ceredigion in West Wales. Kayaking, canoeing, sailing, climbing and orienteering are on the agenda with Activity Wales. These summer-holiday specials run from Sunday to Friday and cost from £1,099 in total for chalet accommodation, meals and activities for two adults and two children under 16 years of age.
Teens can learn to ride the waves at the new Teenage Surfing Academy at Penha Longa in Portugal, now offered by Powder Byrne. Take a holiday here during May half term or the summer holidays, and you can enrol your youngsters on this special programme held on Guincho beach and led by local instructors. Price £245 per week, excluding lunches and other activities.