关于运动的英语作文20句【20篇】

Exercise is a good pastime. When we are bored, we can use the motion to myself and make happy eliminate stress. And, with movement of the interest, also can avoid all other improper entertainment. Exercise can make the body stronger with each passing day, spirit, cultivate good fitness, also can improve the bodys resistance, make our health has the vigor. Someone said: "healthy beggar, rather than sick king". So Im going to exercise everyday, persistence not by fits and starts.

A good variety of campaign: play, running, climbing, hiking... , I like riding a bicycle - can improve bone, muscle development; Swimming - can help the blood circulation, enhance the cardiopulmonary function. Running, can promote metabolism, stretch and exercise of body and mind, to build up your health. I like race competition, win the thrill of covered in sweat and exhausted after motion sensation of feeling good. Movement, however, gave me the revelation is not to win or lose, but to exercise the body, and cultivate the spirit of unity and cooperation.

I love sports. Proper exercise movement, can have a healthy body. Movement choice, best can in line with their own interests and age should not be too fierce, and so as not to cause the accident and injury, cannot not cautious. Hope that everybody movement, everyone is healthy.

运动是一种良好的消遣活动。当我们无聊时候，我们可以用运动来消遣，使心情愉快消除压力。而且，有了运动的兴趣，其它一切不正当的娱乐也可以避免。运动能使身体日渐强壮、精神饱满、培养良好的体能，也可以增强身体的抵抗力，使我们的身体健康有活力。有人说：“健康的乞丐，甚于多病的国王”。所以我要天天运动，持之以恒不可一曝十寒。

运动有好多种：打球、赛跑、爬山、远足…，我喜欢骑自行车—可以增进骨骼、肌肉发展;游泳——能帮助血液循环，增强心肺功能;跑步——能促进新陈代谢、舒展身心、锻炼身体，增进身体健康。我喜欢赛跑竞赛输赢的刺激感，运动后满身大汗、精疲力尽全身舒畅的感觉。然而，运动给我的启示不在于输赢，而是在于锻炼身体，并且培养团结合作的精神。

我爱运动。适当的运动的运动，才能拥有健康的身体。运动的选择最好能符合自己的兴趣和年龄，并且不宜过于激烈，以免造成了意外和伤害，不可不谨慎。希望人人都运动，大家都健康。

As we know,sport plays an important role in our daily lives.

Whenever you do some exercise,you can get a whole new refresh feeling through your body.It really does good to you.For example,going out to play ball games, which is becoming more and more popular these days,can get rid of bad moods,and help you be energetic again.In order to keep fit,you can keep a habbit of doing sports regularly.Youll benefit a lot from it.

All in all,wed better pick up our balls,and go out,to have an exciting game.Ready?Go?

Last month we had a sports meeting. Though the weather wasnt very fine that day, the students were all very excited and the whole school was alive.

This time, I was even more excited. Because I went in for the sports meeting and my item was high jump. I didnt want to get any place, I only wanted to enjoy the game because I knew I wasnt good at sports.

When I got to the field with my friend. I was both excited and nervous. When I saw the first height, my heart could hardly heat. How high it was! It was higher than our desks. I couldnt believe my eyes. This was too high for me to jump over. I wasnt nervous at that timewhile I was a bit afraid. But I had gone there, I must have a try.

Not long after, the game began. The first person was great. He jumped over easily. I was too surprised to say a word. The second was good, too. The third nearly jumped over, but he wasnt bad…

It was my turn. I had a deep breath and then ran towards. In front of the pole, I began to jump. Oh, no! My right foot hit the pole. “I failed.” I thought. And then, another unlucky thing happened. I didnt stand firm and I tumbled. I hurt my back badly. At that moment I felt my back was broken. It was too painful. It seemed that the people around field all didnt know that, they only laughed at my foolish posture. After a very short rest, I stood up.

I push my pain back and then went out of the field with my red face. My friend hurried to come to me. He asked me if this was terrible. I was too pained with my back to answer his questions. I only shook my head. I was sad. Not only I had hurt my back but also I couldnt go on in the game. I had to see the others jump and wish them to get a good place.

Though I didnt have the whole game. I was still very happy. Because a lot of my classmates tried their best in the game and they got a lot of good places. They were all best in my eyes. I was thankful to them for doing their best for our class.

Karen is on the swim team. She is on the swim team at school. She is a good swimmer. All the swimmers on the swim team are good swimmers. She swims every day. She goes to the pool after her last class. Her last class is her English class. After English class she walks over to the pool. She changes into her swim suit. She dives into the water. She swims for two hours. Her coach watches her swim. He gives her advice. He tells her how to swim better. Her coach is her swim instructor. He is a good instructor. She will win a race one day.

凯伦是在游泳队。她在学校的游泳队。她是一个很好的游泳运动员。游泳队的所有游泳运动员都是优秀的游泳运动员。她每天游泳。她上一节课，她去游泳池了。她的最后一节课是她的英语课。在英语课上，她走到游泳池。她改变了她的游泳衣。她潜入水中。她游泳游了2个小时。她的教练看她游泳。他给她的忠告。他告诉她如何更好地游泳。她的教练是她的游泳教练。他是个好老师。她将赢得一天的比赛。

[以游泳运动员为题的英语作文带翻译

Basketball 篮球

Volleyball 排球

Baseball 棒球

Badminton 羽毛球

Tennis 网球

Table tennis 乒乓球

Softball 垒球

Golf 高尔夫球

Billiards 台球

Jogging 慢跑

Swim 游泳

High jump 跳高

Mountain climbing 爬山

Singing 唱歌

Dance 跳舞

Setting-up exercise 健身操

Yoga 瑜伽

Wushu 武术

Judo 柔道

导语：每个学校都会举行运动会，下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的优秀英语作文，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

At the elementary school today it is a sports day; all the parents and friends were invited to attend.Each class in the school was competing in one or more sports events such as relay races,distance races,ball games,parades,and so on.All the guests had small chairs to sit on at one side of the school field.There were refreshments given and a concession stand available if you wanted to buy ice-cream or candy .everyone cheered and clapped after each event.Special honors were given to individual winners,but all in all,everyone felt great that day.

【参考翻译】

在小学今天是体育运动日;所有的父母和朋友都被邀请参加。在学校的每一类中的一个或多个体育赛事，如接力赛、长跑、球类、游行的竞争，等等。所有的客人都有小椅子坐在学校的场的一面。如果你想买冰淇淋或糖果有点心和特许站可用。每个人都鼓掌欢呼后事件。特别荣誉给予个人获奖者，但所有的一切，每个人都感觉很好的那一天。

There are many sports stars in the world. Do you know which is my favourite sport star? My favourite star is Yi Jianlian.

Yi Jianlian is a good basketballer. He is born in Heshan, Guangdong. He is 2.12 meters tall and 113 kilos. He is taller than many people, and he is hangsome and kind. He works hard in the match and in the training. So his coach and team friends all like him.

Yi Jianlian began his career quite early. When he was fifteen years old, he came into CBA. In 2002, he got the first gold medal——Asia Youth championship’s champion. After that, he helped Guangdong team win 3 gold medals from 2003 to 2006 CBA championships. And he von the CBA MVP from 2005 to 2006. In 2006 Asian Games, he got 16.6 points and 10.3 rebounds. He was the greatest basketball player in PRC, in 2006, I think.

On June 28th, 2007, Yi Jianlian came into NBA! All the Chinese people were excited. Because he is the fourth Chinese basketballer who came into NBA. All the people hope he can become better and better..

Yi Jianlian is good at playing basketball. And he is handsome, friendly, kind and so on. So he has a lot of basketball fans in the world. My mother and I are both his fans.

Yi Jianlian is my favourite star. I think, Yi Jianlian will be a famous basketball star in the world later. All the people on the earth will know him!

As the proverb goes, “no one knows the value of health until he loses it.” From this, we know that health is very important to everybody. But how to keep fit? Many people believe that sports can offer people health and pleasure. As far as I concern, I think doing physical exercises have lots of advantages.

有句谚语这样说：“没人会在意健康的价值，直到失去了它”。从这一点，我们就知道健康对每个人的重要性。但是怎么保持健康呢?很多人认为运动可以保证身体健康，带来快乐。就我看来，我认为多做体育运动有很多好处。

First of all, doing exercises in the morning will refresh my body as well as give me a good appetite to eat my breakfast. What’s more, the air in the morning is really fresh and clean, so I can keep my mind clear and sound in the class. By doing physical every day I can keep my mind alert that I can finish my tasks in time. If I do not do any physical exercise, I will feel tired and my body becomes quite sluggish. During the night, I may find it becomes harder to fall asleep. Second, doing exercises everyday will help me to mound a better personality. It takes time and patient to do exercises. Sometimes I just want to give up, but my friends encourage me to carry on, then I feel a lot of satisfaction. Doing physical exercises makes me stronger and healthier. That’s my personal experience.

首先，早上做运动会让我精力充沛，有个好的胃口吃早餐。更重要的是，早晨的空气干净清新，这样我就能在课堂上保持一颗清醒的头脑了。每天的运动会让我思维敏捷，及时完成作业。如果我不做运动，我就会感到精神疲惫，身体迟钝。在晚上也变得难以入睡。其次，每天都做运动可以让我的性格变得更好。做运动要花时间和耐心。有时候我真的很想放弃，但是我的朋友们鼓励我坚持下去，然后我就从中获得了极大的满足感。做运动让我变得更坚强、更健康。这就是我的个人经历。

As a student, sports are indispensable. You can pick up your favorite sport and do it every day. Only in this way, you can have both pleasure and a healthy body.

作为一个学生，运动必不可少。你可以选择你最喜欢的运动，每天都锻炼。只有这样，你才能从中收获健康和快乐。

Every year, my school holds sports meeting in about October, I am very

exciting about it, I can watch the wonderful game and don’t have class. My

school’s sports meeting lasts three days, the class is suspended, all the

students go to the play ground to watch the game. As an audience, I am so

nervous and yell out “come on” to my classmate, watching they get to the final

line, I am so proud of them. The part I like most is relay race, that is so

exciting, all the students yell loudly, the athletes chase one by one, nobody

can be sure who is the champion until the last minute. Sports meeting bring me

so many beautiful memories.

There are quite a lot since I was young, I like sports, they like the sparkling stars sky, how the number is countless. However, my favorite sport is climbing pole.

I like to climb the pole of the campaign, because when I was in kindergarten, I was one of the most naughty girl in our class, everybody calls me "drum". And I climb pole of the sport is also a lot of girls do not dare, dare only two girls and boys of the class, I am one of them, it makes me very proud.

I remember it was a sunny morning, I climb the pole and two boys game. Although I was a lot of trouble with boys than anything, but since I was young, I have a little afraid of heights, so the crawling crawling feeling more and more afraid of, have to despondently slipped. I low head say: "I... I... I lost!" In fact, my heart has one hundred defy spirit.

After school, I got home, he rushed to the front of the my backyard that rail, slowly began to practice. Unconsciously, I have already climbed to the top, I looked down, "ah... frighten to death me!" I never climb such a high place, the sweat from my face like soybean straight flowing downwards.

How can I get rid of my fear of heights problem? I sat on a swing hard thinking. At this time, the father asked me what was wrong, I put the incident tell dad, dad said: "as long as the body balance, dont look down, you will not be afraid." I according to dads words again and again to try, but I cant help sliding down every time, and I remember my father told me, his eyes closed, the body balance, I tried several times, oh... I succeeded, I from the rail down, very happy. I get this good news for the first time dad.

The next day, I and the two boys in the kindergarten again launched a fierce climb bar game, after the match began, my good friends encouraged me to below, and my heart is like fifteen buckets to draw water so anxious. Monkeys like to climb two boys, but they havent been able to climb to the highest point. I also not to be outdone, finally I didnt live up to the expectations of good friends to me, I win, my good friends around me to applaud for me. The two boys have to throw in the towel.

Since then and I climbed to the bar. Climbing pole brings me health and brings joy, it is one of my favorite sports.

我从小就有许许多多喜欢的运动，它们像天上那闪闪发光的小星星，怎么数也数不清。但是，我最喜欢的一项运动就是爬杆。

我之所以喜欢爬杆这项运动，是因为我在上幼儿园的时候，我是我们班女生里最淘气的一个，大家都叫我“淘汽包”。而我爬杆这项运动也是很多女生不敢做的，全班只有两个女生敢和男生比，我就是其中一个，这让我很自豪。

我记得那是一个阳光明媚的早上，我和两个男生比赛爬杆。虽然我是个淘气包什么都敢跟男生比，但是我从小就有点恐高，所以爬着爬着感觉越来越怕，只好灰溜溜地滑了下来。我低着头说：“我……我……我输了!”其实我的心里有一百个的不服气。

放学后，我一回到家，就冲到我家后院那根栏杆前，开始慢慢地练习。不知不觉地，我已经爬到了最高处，我一往下看，“啊……吓死我啦!”我从没有爬过这么高的地方，大豆般的汗珠从我的脸颊直往下流。

怎么才能去掉我恐高的毛病呢?我坐在秋千上闷头苦想着。这时，爸爸过来问我怎么了，我把事情的经过讲给爸爸听，爸爸告诉说：“只要身体保持平衡，不要向下看，你就不会害怕了。”我按爸爸的话一次又地尝试着，可是我每次都会情不自禁地滑下来，我回想爸爸跟我讲的话，把眼睛闭着，身体保持平衡，我又试了几次，哦……我成功了，我从栏杆下来后，好开心!我第一时间把这个好消息告诉爸爸。

第二天，我和那两个男生又在幼儿园展开了一场激烈的爬杆比赛，比赛开始后，我的好朋友都在下面鼓励我，而我的心里却像十五个吊桶打水七上八下。两个男生猴子似的往上爬，可他们都没能爬到最高点。我也不甘示弱，终于我没有辜负好朋友们对我的期望，我赢了，我的好朋友都围着我为我喝彩。两个男生也只好认输。

从那以后我和爬杆结下了不解之缘。爬杆给我带来了健康，带来了快乐，它是我最喜欢的一种运动。

导语：每当校运会来临，每个学生都是那么的兴奋，下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的优秀英语作文，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

Our school had a sports meeting last week. Eleven classes took part in it. The weather was sunny and warm, and the whole playground was quite exciting.

In the boys relay race, Class 6 fell behind at first. But the second runner Li Lei ran faster than any other runner. Then he caught up with others little by little.

At last, their classmate, Wang Lin passed the finishing line first. Besides, Li Lin from Class 7 broke the school record for 100-meter race and Class 11 won the team title. The headmaster gave the prizes to the winners.

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上周我校举行了一场运动会，有11个班参加。那天天气晴朗而温暖，整个操场一片沸腾。

在男子接力比赛中，6班开始时落后。但是在第二棒李雷比其他选手跑得都快。他逐渐赶上了其他人。

最后，他的同班同学王林第一个到达了终点。另外还有来自7班的李林打破了100米短跑的学校记录，11班获得了团体总分第一。校长给得胜者颁奖。

Students need enough sports and activities to do physical exercises and relax, but in some schools they are not given enough time to do outside activities. It’s harmful for students’ growth. Teachers ask students to spend most of their time on studies. But when they feel tired and bored, students can’t concentrate on studies. They are in bad health.

It’s necessary to give students enough time to do outside activities. After good relaxation and rest, studens will work harder.

Pay attention to students’ health and growth.

学生们需要足够的运动和活动来做体育锻炼和放松,但是一些学校没有给予足够的时间从事课外活动。对学生的成长是有害的。老师要求学生花费大量的时间在研究上。但当他们累了,烦了,学生就不能集中精力学习。他们的身体也不好。

有必要给学生足够的时间从事课外活动。休息好和放松后,学生会更加努力学习。

关注学生的健康和成长。

I like to watch all kinds of sport matches, I adore athletes, they are so inspiring, they work so hard to become the strongest, the most honorable thing is that their success is by their effort, not by advertise. But lately, the news about athletes taking the medicine to win the game, this is so shameful, the honesty is believed to be a athlete’s merit, when he loses it, he loses people’s respect.

我喜欢看所有的体育赛事，我崇拜运动员，他们很激励人，他们通过努力训练成为最强的人，最令人佩服的是他们的成功是通过努力，而不是宣传。但是最近，关于运动员服药而赢得比赛的新闻令人感到羞耻，诚实被视为运动员的品质，当运动员丢掉这个时，他也丢掉了人们的尊重。

What is the pride of a athlete? The answer is their work hard for the champion, the sprit of never giving up, but when a athlete plays a trick to win the champion, there is no doubt that people will despite him. The spirit of sport game is respect your opponent, all the guys are fighting in a fair competition, when one of them takes the medicine, that means he breaks the game rule, he has no right to compete. Taking the medicine makes a athlete lose his honesty, he deserves to be abandoned, the basic thing is no longer find in him. We all like to watch the athletes compete in a pure situation, what makes them stronger is their will, not the medicine.

一个运动员的骄傲是什么?答案是他们通过努力赢得冠军，永不放弃的精神，但是当一个运动员耍诡计来赢得冠军，毫无疑问，人们会鄙视他。运动比赛的精神是尊重对手，所有的人都处在公平竞争的比赛，当其中一个人服药的时候，这意味着他打破了比赛规则，他没有竞争的资格。服药让一个运动员失去诚信，他应该被淘汰，最基本的东西都没有了。我们都想要看到运动员处在公平竞争的状态，让他们更强的是意志，而不是药物。

The athlete who takes the medicine or plays other tricks will be kicked out by the referee. As the audience, we all want to watch the fair game, we appreciate the athlete’s spirit of never giving up.

那些服药或者耍诡计的运动员应该被裁判开除。作为一名观众，我们都想要看到公平的比赛，我们欣赏运动员永不放弃的精神。

Sports in our school have changed a lot.Now we have more than 30

minutes’rest after the second period in the morning every day.And we have more

than 30 minutes’exercise after the second class in the afternoon.So we have at

least one hour to exercise each day. Students get so excited at these

changes.More and more students take an active part in the ball

games，running，dancing，and jumping on the playground.Our school life is becoming

more wonderful. Doing sports is a good way to relax and keep fit.What’s more，a

healthy body call help us to study better and live a happier life.

Today is Thursday, and the school has a spring sports meet. I woke up early in the morning, because it was my first time after school, and I had to play. Im excited and nervous.

The students came to school early in their uniforms. After a while, the opening ceremony of the games began. With the high national anthem, we lined up to the playground.

The game officially began. The first event was our first year relay race. Bang gunshot, athletes like the arrow as rushed out. At the other end of the runway, taking over the students to lean forward to stick immediately after flying in general run. It was my turn, and although I was nervous, I managed to catch it and ran across. The cheers and cheers of the field were higher and higher, and the runners ran one after another. Finally, we had the relay third. Then, the two hundred meter race, softball, and other events.

Time flies, after a day of game, finally we had the first grade, the students jumped with joy. What a happy sports meeting!

Today is the annual sports meet. Now, grade six in primary school. Also represents the games, is the primary school in the last games. This makes me sad, but todays games, first let me sorrow away.

体育运动是在人类发展过程中逐步开展起来的有意识地对自己身体素质的培养的各种活动。体育运动能够锻炼身体，愉悦身心。下面是语文迷网为大家提供的体育运动英语作文，欢迎阅读。

英语作文一：体育运动的好处

Sports do us good in many respects.It goes without saying that taking exercises can build up our physical strength. In collective sports like basketball, volleyball, or football, we will learn the importance of cooperation. While taking part in sports game, we will try our best to win and arouse ourselves the competitive spirit. Sports can also help us relax after a period of exhausting work. However, as the saying goes, "there are two sides to everything", and sports is without exception. We may hurt other players or ourselves if we are not careful enough when participating in sports activities. Whats more, excessive or severe training can do harm to our health.

My participation in sports tells me that sports can make us healthy both physically and psychologically. It is also a good way for people to know each other and can promote friendship between people. So long as we are carefully enough, sports can do us nothing but good.

翻译：

运动在很多方面都对我们有好处。不用说，锻炼可以增强我们的体力。集体运动项目，比如篮球、排球或者足球，我们都会学到合作的重要性。参加运动，我们尽我们最大的努力去赢而且能够激发我们的竞争精神。经过一段精疲力尽的工作后，运动可以使我们放松。然而，常言道，什么事情都有两方面，运动也是不例外的。在参加体育活动时，我们可能会伤害到别的运动员或者我们自己，如果我们不足够小心的话。此外，过度的或过严的训练都可能对我们的健康有害。

我在体育运动方面的参与经验告诉我们运动可以让我们身心健康。也是让大家互相认识的好方式而且还能促进友谊。所以，只要我们足够小心，运动是百无一害的。

英语作文二：体育运动的好处

Doing exercise is good for our health.For example,play basketball,play badminton...

Lots of lessons always make us tired,so if we do some exercise,we can have a rest.Then,well study better.Also,it will make our more healthy.If we are ill,and then we cant study any more.If we do it,we can be strong,so we wont be ill in the hospital.

Do you know?Doing exercise can help us make friends with more people.It will make us more friendly.

In general,its good for us to do exercise.So,everyone!To do exercise now!

英语作文三：体育运动的好处

As we know,sport plays an important role in our daily lives.

Whenever you do some exercise,you can get a whole new refresh feeling through your body.It really does good to you.For example,going out to play ball games, which is becoming more and more popular these days,can get rid of bad moods,and help you be energetic again.In order to keep fit,you can keep a habbit of doing sports regularly.Youll benefit a lot from it.

All in all,wed better pick up our balls,and go out,to have an exciting game.Ready?Go?

Every year when the autumn comes, there will be a sports meeting in my school. I am so impressed by the opening ceremony. Every class will march on the ground and show their features, which is very funny. Last year, a group of students wore the co-splay dresses. When they showed up, they caught all people’s attention and won the biggest applause. It is a great event for every student, and also a good chance to let students develop their creativity. This year, my class decided to make a big surprise. Everyone has provided their idea and I love the atmosphere. I am so looking forward to the opening ceremony.

每年秋天到来的时候，我学校都会举行运动会。开幕式给我留下了深刻的印象。每个班级都将在操场上行走，展示他们的特色，非常有趣。去年，一群学生穿了角色扮演的裙子，当他们出现的时候，吸引了所有人的注意力，赢得了最热烈的掌声。这对每个学生来说都是大事一件，也是让学生发挥创造力的好机会。今年，我们班决定给大家一个惊喜，每个人都提供了自己的想法，我喜欢这样的氛围。我对开幕式充满了期待。

Everybody knows that Brazil won the World Cup in 2002 in Japan. But do you know who helped Brazil football team win it? It was Ronaldo.

In the 17th World Cup match in 2002, Brazil beat seven football teams and won the World Cup. Ronaldo scored 8 goals in 7 matches, so he won the best shot. He also had a goal in the match between Brazil and China. I think many Chinese remember it. Though he didn’t win the MVP, he really played very well in the matches.

Now Ronaldo plays football in Real Madrid Football Club in Spain. In the last season, Real Madrid didn’t win the Champion and Ronaldo didn’t win the best shot. But this season many good players joined this club. In the first eleven matches, Real Madrid won seven of them. Ronaldo also scored seven goals. I believe Ronaldo will get the best shot and he can help Real Madrid win the Champion this season.[作文]

Ronaldo is a very good football player. I like him very much.

Aerobic exercise is a series of activities which can improve our heart-lung function by maintaining longer, including running, bicycling, swimming and so on. It brings a lot of benefits to our body and psychology.

有氧运动是在长期坚持下可改善心肺功能的一系列活动。有氧运动包括跑步、骑单车、游泳等。这种运动十分有益于身心健康。Physically, taking aerobic exercise advances our physical health and reduces our agony. It promotes our heart and lung function by increasing their expansion and contraction, which is beneficial for resisting pressure from longtime labor or extra-strength work. And it improves fat consumption and metabolism, which lay a solid foundation for disease prevention. Meanwhile, it helps keep our body in a good shape by consuming the overfull calories.生理上，做些有氧运动可以提高我们身体健康，减少我们的痛苦。做有氧运动可增加心肺的伸缩，以提高心肺功能，有益于抵御长期的劳作和加班带来的压力。它还能促进脂肪的消耗，促进新陈代谢，预防疾病。同时，有氧运动还能消耗多余热量，有益于保持良好体型。Psychologically, acting aerobic exercise also conduces to our psychological health. We are able to be more confident and positive that we have capacity of doing something at the best, just like finishing our plans or achieving our destinations in exercise. Thus we can ventilate our negative feelings by doing workout so that we can strive for our dreams again.心理上，进行有氧运动还有利于我们的心理健康。通过户外锻炼我们能消除负面情绪，才能再次为梦想奋斗。Hence, for the wellbeing of body and mind, let us have some aerobic exercise together.因此，为了我们的身心健康，让我们一起来做有氧运动吧!

All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy and happy, and to live longer.

Sports change with the seasons. People play different games in winter and summer. Swimming is fun in warm weather, but skating is good in winter.

Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere go in for them. Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers. Some sports or games go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese wushu, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. People are inventing new sports or games all the time. Water skiing is one of the newest in the family of sports.

People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game together they often become good friends. Sports help to train a persons character. One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace.