Swam across the Suez Canal, dodging tankers, walking around to look at the Sinai side, in 1982, soon after the peace, and the return of Sinai to the Egyptians. I don’t consider it daredevil - I consider it idiocy.
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Just a hot air balloon ride over countryside Virginia at sunset. It was pretty magical. Once was enough.
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Whitewater rafting twice. Once was Brown’s Canyon in CO
Zip lining
Many hikes with steep drop offs. And our last hike this spring before it got too hot included a rattlesnake encounter. The one before that had tarantula wasps. Arizona is fun that way.
Canyoneering in Utah (rappelling off cliffs). This felt way less scary with our teenage son than taking him to places near cliffs and no safety gear TBH.
We also hiked into a Lava Tube in northern AZ one time. That wasn’t especially daredevilish in reality, but we brought smaller flashlights than we should have and we were totally alone for a good part of the hike. So dark outside the little circles of our flashlights. Also very cold.
We’re looking at doing a Via Ferrata later this summer.
I went up in a hot air balloon once. It was tethered. I was a kid. It just went up and back down. I was terrified and I’ll never do it again. I would go skydiving but my husband says no way and I won’t put him through that worry when he’s so against it.
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I have a few minor mishaps to go along with the daredevil (or foolhardy) events.
I got knocked out from a kick to the head during a martial arts competition. Realized that wasn’t something I wanted to pursue.
Got run over by my own boat while whitewater rafting in a class 3/4 zone. I was the only one willing to push us free when we got stuck on a rock - I got us loose and was promptly run over. Had to float on down solo for a while before reaching a safe spot to get out.
Went sideways off track during a car club event at Laguna Seca Raceway on a rainy day. Slid about 10-20 feet sideways through the mud towards a looming concrete wall before stopping a few feet short.
Took a little sailboat out sailing on the Mediterranean with a buddy with zero sailing experience between the two of us. Kept capsizing until we called it quits and limped back to shore via trial and error.
Flipped a kayak somewhere off the SoCal coast and sent my sunglasses to the bottom of the pacific.
Went backpacking through Europe for 3 months with aforementioned buddy when we were 16. Pre-cellphone, pre-internet, no credit cards, maybe $500 in traveller’s checks. Seems so crazy these days, but the only sort of mishap was sitting in a train station in Florence hearing a lot of shouting and seeing a lot of police or military with big assault rifles running past our window. Unusually for us, we exercised previously unknown discretion and stayed put instead of going to see what was happening. Probably did have a few mishaps during that trip that I can’t recall……
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Playing hard and wild age 11 or so in the construction zone that is now the Civic Center, Scottsdale.
Mid to late teens, hitchhiking. The scariest moments were rides where the driver had been drinking.
I was a passenger in many private planes in my 20s, including with my brother doing stalls and other training exercises. Flying over the Juneau icefield into Canada was about the most adventurous trip, if routine to some.
Traveled East Asia solo in 1977. Which really felt very safe, if adventurous. I landed in San Francisco December of 1978 when Jim Jones and the death of Harvey Milk were current news, and the USA felt far more threatening than anything in Asia. Except Manila.
Completed the Annapurna trek in Nepal. White water rafted in Nepal.
Backpacked the Grand Canyon pregnant, twice.
Working in nursing feels plenty daredevil at times, working with acute alcohol withdrawal and sometimes psychiatric emergencies. Covid this past year was very intimidating for quite a while, but gradually we learned to count on the PPI protecting us, despite reusing N95 masks meant to be single use multiple times.
I am a wimp, for the most part, skydiving, rock climbing, scuba, parasailing, downhill skiing, etc never especially appealed. Or rather they might appeal if I were a different person with better coordination. Hot air balloon is a wish for the future.
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Ahh… construction zones. The playgrounds of my childhood, too! 
My friends and I also liked to climb giant piles of giant Douglas fir logs at a lumber mill. And then run really fast when the guard would show up 
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Ziplining
The rest are risky but I thought okay with proper training and planning:
Scuba diving
Swimming Alcatraz to shore
Ice climbing
Kite surfing
White water rafting
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I’m more of a truly live (within reason) AND grow into old age to tell the tale type of gal!
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I’ve always thought the luge looked super fun–so I did it in a simulator. Great ride!
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Yep. BTDT. But you get good at dodging fists and feet!
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And I’m going to try skydiving–but go to one that’s indoors. Not exactly the same but they say the freefall experience is the same.
I’ve done both - not the same ; )
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Yeah, I’ve done the indoor skydiving thing, and I would not think it would compare. It was fun, but I can’t quite believe it’s the same thing. Similar to rock climbing. I’ve climbed a tall wall set up at an amusement park (coming down was far scarier to me, LOL), but I wouldn’t put that in the same category as climbing a real outdoors rock wall. My kids climbed for real at a camp before.
Older S also went cliff jumping in Greece. I was so jealous. I tried to find a spot on our last Europe trip, but it didn’t work out. Older S also drove a Ferrari on the streets between Nice/Monaco with an instructor. I don’t think he went all that crazy fast. He said the instructor kept encouraging him to do more daredevil type stuff. Younger S was too young to drive, so he went as a passenger while the instructor did crazy stuff. I saved the $$$ and let them do it. That’s not really my thing.
Edit: Whatever you think of the movie Titanic… that scene at the end where elderly Rose is surrounded by all of her pictures doing cool things and going cool places? I want that to be me. 
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Listed in order from least to most dangerous:
Skydiving.
Boxed in a raised ring before a raucous crowd.
By accident, skied down the expert slope at a major ski resort.
Hand fed two un-neutered male dogs freshly cooked chicken.
Walked around Boston wearing a brand new New York Yankees sweatshirt.
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Ha! You reminded me about my two most dangerous activities!
As a UT-Austin student, sitting in the Texas A&M section at a football game. UT won, yay, and the Aggies weren’t very happy with me.
Attending a Patriots home game against the Cowboys in 1989. I hadn’t been out of Texas for long, so I was still rooting for Dallas and even waved a team pennant. Dallas won, yay.
I don’t know if I would do anything like that again!
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Oh us too, that’s why we never use our cell phones or eat while driving. Ditto for having a designated driver when needed. Certain risks aren’t worth taking!
Yeah, but as an engineer I have learned that most people don’t evaluate risks logically. If they did, they would hesitate to drive any distance at all. And they would get the COVID vaccine for sure, although that is a discussion for the other thread.
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I streaked with a mask on through a classroom of night students in 1975. Does that count?
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Pics or it didn’t happen. 
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Holly crap… I was in a night class back in the day when a person streaked through the classroom with nothing but a mask on.
Darth Vader is that you?
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