As of February 2022, the sports with the highest participation rate in the Netherlands were hiking and individual fitness activities, encompassing 19 percent of respondents each. Other popular options were swimming, with eight percent, and running, with seven percent.
Sports engagement
The rate of sports participation in the Netherlands in 2022 was highest in September when 63 percent of respondents practiced some form of sport four or more times in a month. The highest participation rates happened in Fall and early Summer, and the lowest in the Winter.
In 2020, many sports clubs and organizations in the Netherlands closed or suspended activities due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Over half of Dutch practitioners that reduced or ceased their physical activity cited this as their reason for doing so.
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