Abstract:

Sport is vital for every human being including children and adults. Regular, scheduled and appropriate sporting activities are effective in the healthy development. Sport is very important in terms of both physical development and the children's emotional, mental and social developments. This study aims to determine what sport means in the lives of children in fourth class students of primary school. A descriptive method and phenomenology design from qualitative research designs were used in this research. 40 primary school children between 8-10 years of age constituted the study group. The gathered data was subjected to content analysis; the data were interpreted and presented in tables. According to research results, students agree that sport is beneficial. But children do not do sports regularly. They find opportunity to do sports with their friends or in the physical education course at school. Swim is the most preferred sport by the male and female students. At the same time, male students prefer volleyball and karate too. Girls also prefer sports such as volleyball and gymnastics as well as swimming. The reasons for the students to play sports are economic inadequacies, redundancy of lessons and inadequacy of sports facilities.

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