| （Department of Physical Education，Guangzhou Sport University，Guangzhou 510500，China） Abstract: By taking the Pearl River Delta area for example, where economic development level and comfortably livable society realization level are relative high, and by applying the questionnaire investigation procedure, the au-thors studied the characteristics and patterns of leisure sports activities of residents in cities and towns in order to provide an accurate and objective scientific criterion for establishing development measures, and revealed the fol-lowing findings: as for residents in cities and towns in the Pearl River Delta area, their leisure sports activities mainly happen in the evening, afternoon and early morning, their activity motives are mainly sports for fitness and sports for pleasure, their activity events are simple, feasible and stylish events, and their awareness of the environ-ment for leisure sports activities is enhanced; the quantity of group activities is increasing; there are more and more sings of consumption for material type and enjoyment type leisure sports activities.
Key words: leisure sport；residents in cities and towns；Pearl River Delta |
