This article discusses outdoor recreation from the perspective of the actor-network theory (ant). It aims to show how this theoretical approach provides an heuristic perspective to capture the recent transformations of outdoor recreation and to shift our gaze on these activities. It focuses on three dimensions of the development of outdoor recreation: an organizational dimension, a political dimension and a market dimension. We will explain how each of these dimensions can be understood through different ant concepts, in particular those of translation sociology to think about sports innovations, those related to the emergence of hybrid forums to capture controversies, and finally those focusing more specifically on market arrangements to understand the development of an outdoor recreational market.