HKWorkoutActivityType: all 84 cases and their same-name constants on Health Connect, Wear OS and the Google Health API

All 84 cases

Names are copied exactly from the source; the last column lists the constants on the other platforms whose names match under the crosswalk rule, with their numbers where printed.

What Apple says about calories, by case

33 of the 84 case pages carry a discussion. Most of them say how HealthKit counts calories for the activity; these are Apple’s sentences, grouped where the wording is identical.

• “HealthKit estimates calories for this activity based on the data from Apple Watch’s sensors. This rate is never lower than the brisk walk burn rate when moving.”7 cases: americanFootball, discSports, downhillSkiing, lacrosse, paddleSports, rugby, snowboarding
• “HealthKit provides optimized calorie calculations for this activity based on the data from Apple Watch’s sensors.”18 cases: cardioDance, cooldown, coreTraining, crossCountrySkiing, cycling, elliptical, functionalStrengthTraining, highIntensityIntervalTraining, hiking, kickboxing, pilates, running, stairClimbing, taiChi, walking, wheelchairRunPace, wheelchairWalkPace, yoga
• “HealthKit estimates calories for this activity based on the data from Apple Watch’s sensors. This rate is never lower than the brisk walk burn rate when moving. Calorie calculations differ between indoor and outdoor workouts for this activity.”3 cases: hockey, skatingSports, soccer
• “HealthKit provides optimized calorie calculations for this activity based on the data from Apple Watch’s sensors. Calorie calculations differ between indoor and outdoor workouts for this activity.”1 case: rowing
• “Use this constant to create workouts that contain the HKWorkoutActivityType.swimming, HKWorkoutActivityType.cycling, and HKWorkoutActivityType.running activities. These activities can happen in any order. For more information, see HKWorkoutActivity. HealthKit provides optimized calorie calculations for this activity based on the data from Apple Watch’s sensors.”1 case: swimBikeRun
• “If your app uses the HKWorkoutActivityType.swimming or HKWorkoutActivityType.other activity type, you must explain how your app calculates workout data when sensor information is not available. For more information, see the Human Interface Guidelines. HealthKit provides optimized calorie calculations for this activity based on the data from Apple Watch’s sensors.”1 case: swimming

Deprecated cases (3)

• dance: Use HKWorkoutActivityType.cardioDance or HKWorkoutActivityType.socialDance instead.
• danceInspiredTraining: Use HKWorkoutActivityType.dance, HKWorkoutActivityType.barre, or HKWorkoutActivityType.pilates instead.
• mixedMetabolicCardioTraining: Use HKWorkoutActivityType.mixedCardio or HKWorkoutActivityType.highIntensityIntervalTraining instead.

No same-name counterpart (31)

No other platform spells these names the same way under the rule. That is a statement about names, not a finding that the activity is missing elsewhere.

americanFootball, australianFootball, barre, cardioDance, cooldown, cycling, dance, danceInspiredTraining, discSports, downhillSkiing, flexibility, mindAndBody, mixedCardio, mixedMetabolicCardioTraining, paddleSports, pickleball, play, preparationAndRecovery, skatingSports, snowSports, socialDance, stairs, surfingSports, swimBikeRun, traditionalStrengthTraining, transition, underwaterDiving, waterFitness, waterSports, wheelchairRunPace, wheelchairWalkPace

The catch-all: HKWorkoutActivityType.other

• “The constant for a workout that does not match any of the other workout activity types.” (Apple's page for each HKWorkoutActivityType case (84 JSON documents))
• “If your app uses the HKWorkoutActivityType.swimming or HKWorkoutActivityType.other activity type, you must explain how your app calculates workout data when sensor information is not available. For more information, see the Human Interface Guidelines.” (Apple's page for each HKWorkoutActivityType case (84 JSON documents))

Side by side, one activity at a time

• Elliptical
• Hiking
• Pilates
• Running
• Walking
• Yoga
• High intensity interval training
• Stair climbing

More on Apple HealthKit on this site

• HealthKit workout activity types, by Apple's groups
• HealthKit exercise and fitness activities
• Every HealthKit type identifier
• Every HealthKit metadata key (workout keys included)

Questions

Sources (3)

• Apple's HealthKit documentation JSON, as read for this site's HealthKit identifier reference · read 2026-10-02 · sha256 1713010fe143
• HKWorkoutActivityType · read 2026-10-18 · sha256 b3e6bf7bd9d5
• Apple's page for each HKWorkoutActivityType case (84 JSON documents) · read 2026-10-18 · sha256 91c341579aea