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What is the difference between sport aquatiques and sports nautiques?

i am learning french and am learning about categories of sports in french. I was wondering what sport aquatiques and sports nautiques meant. I know they are both in water but i want to know the difference between the 2.

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1. aquatics is indoor, nautical is for ocean, big water stuff
2. aquatiques=acuáticos=acuatic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic SOMETHING DONE IN A BODY OF WATER -like swimming- (ocean, rivers, lakes, etc.) nautiques=naútico=nautical http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nautical THIS INVOLVES NAVIGATION, that also can be at the ocean or any body of water.