Sport, Fun and Enjoyment explores the pleasurable aspects of sport within the context of everyday recreational and competitive physical activities. By offering a critical exploration of what can be constituted as 'fun' in a sporting context, this book reveals the complex ways in which individuals approach sport and engage with it throughout life.

Drawing on a wide research literature and original empirical research with children and adults, the book outlines a new theoretical framework for thinking about pleasure and fun in sport, highlighting the contrasting ways in which sport and physical activity is experienced and the interplay between individual and social contexts. Sport, Fun and Enjoyment is important reading for anybody with an interest in physical education, youth sport, the sociology of sport, physical activity and health, sport development or sport policy.

Ian Wellard is a Reader in the Sociology of Sport and Physical Education. His main research interests relate to body practices, masculinities, and sport. Recent books include Sport, Masculinities and the Body and Re-thinking Gender and Youth Sport, both for Routledge.

1. Introduction: Sport and embodied pleasures 2. Theorising sport and body-reflexive pleasures 3. Fun and enjoyment in childhood sports and physical activity 4. Sport, fun and enjoyment for the 'non-sporty' 5. Sporting fun outside the margins 6. Personal reflections and shared stories 7. Conclusions