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Sports Awareness; It can be defined as “learning the individual and social benefits of sports, associating them with other categories, putting them into practice and raising awareness around them” (Uyar and Sunay, 2020). Building the sports culture on the right foundations and adopting all the values and gains of sports to the society depends primarily on the creation of sports awareness in every part of the society. This study was carried out with the aim of "investigation of sports awareness levels of individuals who regularly do sports in terms of various variables". In the research, scanning model was used. While the population of the study consisted of individuals living in the province of Ankara, doing and not doing sports regularly, the sample of the study consisted of 606 people selected by random sampling method from the specified universe. The data in the research were collected through the personal information form, which includes the demographic information of the participants, and the Sports Awareness Scale developed by Uyar and Sunay (2020). In the analysis of the data, descriptive statistics and arithmetic means were examined, and the t-test and One Way Anova tests were used for the differences between the groups. The reliability of the scale was checked with the Cronbach Alpha coefficient. In the study, it was observed that there were statistically significant differences in all variables of doing sports regularly, gender, having a regular income-generating job, age and educational status. As a result, it has been observed that the sports awareness levels of individuals who regularly do sports (x̄=3.71) are higher than those who do not regularly do sports (x̄ = 2.84).

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