7 Best Sports & Activity Venues In Dundee and Angus

The names give you the first clue. Block10 Bouldering is bouldering, which normally means low walls, matting underneath and no ropes or partner required, so a child can simply start climbing. Avertical World Climbing Centre reads as a fuller centre, which usually brings roped routes and more instruction into the picture. Ring both and ask the same question — what does a first session for a child of this age involve — and the difference will be obvious inside a minute.

Four of the seven listings are indoor, and between them they cover most tastes. Dundee Ice Arena is the one that feels like a proper outing rather than an hour of exercise, and skating is a skill that a whole family can be equally bad at together. TeamSport Indoor Karting Dundee suits older children and has height rules worth checking first. The climbing walls take up the rest, and neither cares in the slightest what the sky is doing.

Sandy Sensation is the outdoor listing aimed squarely at younger children, and it asks nothing of them but energy. Beyond that, this is a category that leans towards children old enough to be given equipment and instructions, so parents of under-fives will do better looking at parks and play listings for the same area. Climbing centres often run sessions for small children, but that is a question to ask rather than an assumption to make.