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{{Note|''Note that this website is mainly about [[hitchhiking]], another free form of transport, which is much more legal and especially more safe.''}}

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'''Train hopping''' (also called '''train surfing''', '''train hitching''' or, in parts of the United States, '''catching out''') is a riding on the outside of a train or another rail transport. In a number of countries, the term '''train hopping''' is often confused with the term '''freight hopping''', which means riding on the outside of a [[freight train]], while train hopping can be practiced on any type of a train. This type of travelling can be dangerous and even life-threatening, because there is a risk of death or serious injury from falling off a moving train, electrocution from power supply (overhead lines, current collectors and resistors), colliding with a railway infrastructure (bridges, tunnels, platforms, traffic lights or other trains) while riding outside off structure gauge on the side or on the roof of a train, or unsuccessful attempts to jump on a moving train or off it.