Active Population
Amsterdam is an active city, with the majority of the population leading an healthy lifestyle, regularly incorporating activity into their daily lives.
Sports for all seasons
Whatever time of the year, one will always find Amsterdammers engaging in numerous activity. There is an underlying belief that sport and exercise are key in living a healthy, happy life and the city's population takes advantage of this regularly.
Even in the midst of wintertime, Amsterdammers are traditionally drawn to skating halls, the public rinks on the Museum and Dam Square, or even the odd frozen canal in a (very) lucky year.
In milder months, these skates turn to wheels as hundreds of free-wheelers can be seen zooming around the city streets and parks on in-line skates – which some claim are a cousin to the wooden-spools-on-shoes invented by a Dutchman in the early 1700’s. Summer months see Amsterdammers flocking to the nearby beaches and lakes, and even the canals, to set sail. Year round, inhabitants make use of gyms, sport centers, swimming pools and other centers to participate in everything from aerobics to pilates to yoga.
And of course, there is the bicycle: Amsterdammers regard their bicycles as a primary means of transport for everything from their persons to their babies to their brief cases to their groceries to even their furniture!
Sports groups
Follow this link for a list of international sports groups.
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