For the last three years, the resort has been offering the creative sport of Zorbing (also known as OGO Balls). Zorbing is the act of getting into a hamster-shaped ball and then going down a hill.

And the accident has led to calls from "the New Zealand inventors of zorbing ... for a global code of safe operations to try and stamp out cowboy operators," the Otago Daily Times reports.

A new sport has swept through ski slopes in Russia: zorbing. In zorbing, a man is strapped inside a giant transparent inflatable ball and rolls down a mountain. Zorbing has become so popular in ...

HOLLAND — The latest thrill sensation to hit West Michigan is Zorbing, a sport in which you strap yourself into an inflated plastic ball and roll down a hill over ...

'Zorbing' survivor speaks of 'fear' in friend's eyes before death A Russian who survived hurtling down a mountainside in an inflatable "zorb" while his friend died has spoken of the moments ...

Zorbing - effectively throwing yourself down a slope in a giant ball - has become the latest extreme sport craze to sweep the world. Although zorbing was invented in 2000, it has only recently begun ...