Leisure Activities
Most of Britain’s population enjoys sport and leisure activities in one way or another, and whether as a participant or a spectator there are a whole host of activities to enjoy.
In recent years the encouragement toward a more healthy lifestyle has led to more people taking up physical activity, whether to get fit or to keep fit. These activities can be found indoors at leisure, sporting and recreation centres and outdoors, at the many free publicly available playing fields and also at clubs and associations which are open to members or paying visitors. In any event there are plenty to choose from whatever your level of physical fitness.
As with most countries many of the leisure activities in the UK are much more sedate. Whether as an individual or a team, a child, adult or family, most towns and cities have something for everyone.
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The most popular sport in Lithuania is definitely basketball - we even call it our "second religion"... :-)) So people of different ages play it everywhere and love watching basketball games too. In recent years, dancing has been growing in popularity after they started showing dancing contest like "Dancing with the stars" on TV.
Young people are naturally more fit than the older generation - they enjoy different kinds of modern, even extreme sports such as mountain skiing and snowboarding (not in Lithuania, of course ;-)), kiting in all seasons, parcour, skateboarding, canooing in summer as we have lots of beautiful rivers and lakes etc. I wish our elderly generation would lead more active lives - even if it means walking more :-)) Municipalities and some organisations sometimes organise sports events especially for older peole, for example, free-of-charge tai chi lessons otdoors and in schools.
Hi, I'm Spaniard but living in Italy from 2 years. Here in Italy the most successful sport and more played by youngers and adults is football but also Volleyball and Basketball is played in schools. There are intersting leagues of both sports now a days in Itay.
In my opinion the younger the generation, the fitter it is. For example my generation is fitter than my father's and my children's generation is better than mine, just because we (parents) encourage them doing sports.
I think that the most popular leisure activity in Ukraine is still football, and among the girls dancing is popular. But the problem is that it is very expensive. There are less and less free sport centers, especially for children. I also would like to go dancing after my work or study but the fee is not affordable for me. It is also one of the reasons why my generation is less fit and active.
most of towns and cities has leisure center and recreation area in the uk . you cant see other countries this sample of leisure area instance of this issue in turkey u can nat find indoors , outdoors , not many recreation place in the cities especially for disable people that issue makes them isolate and excluded from other citizen
even we dont give the value our people but in england they encourage are their people to work doing someting in at their leisure time even turkey they discourage people forceful something ı m sorry about disable people this is deeply moving sorryyy taking everything into account : english people u have to give value ur country
In Indonesia, football is the most happening sport and almost everyone likes it. We usually go to the nature park or beach during leisure time. Enjoy Indonesia :)
Football, running and tennis. our generation is less fit than the previous ones.
I think every one should exercise at least 15 minutes a day,but regularly.Swimming and jogging make lots of fun as well.
hello every one ,
I am from syria , and here in the middle east they don't really interest in sports rather they tend to travel out side either to study or to take recreation , but the privious generations were very actives therefore they kept thier hygiene .
Im brazilian, and for me the three most important leisure activities practiced in my country are football (of course!), capoeira and dance. Fortunately Brazil has lot of music styles like samba, bossa nova, forró, axé, funk carioca and people here like very much to dance brazilian typical dance styles as much as other country dance like belly dance, street dance, ballet, jazz etc.
Hi everyone!!!!
In Venezuela the baseball, football and volleyball are very famous and common between young people. Also, you can practice them at the school when you are very young. As we have a nice weather whole the year, without autumn and winter, the leisure pursuits in outdoors are most popular.
On the other hand, people like so much to go to the gym in their free time, generally after working. There are a lot of fitness centers in the mainly cities. In my country it´s very important to get and keep fit, the Venezuelan society gives to the beauty an important rol, but sometimes this could be so hard, because it is so far from reality.
People between 35 and 60 years old like jogging at the end of the day, or very very early. The younger people like swimming too.
I think that nowadays it´s more important than ever before practicing sports and having an healthy lifestyle. Some societies have managed a better quality of life, hence they could pay an special attention to this sort of activities.
Bye,
Emilio