Sports and Recreation Activities Students Sports and Recreation Activities
		Sports, which can be described as games with rules, is considered one of the basic elements of forming robust societies. Sports are not only a leisure time activity but also a life style. Positive effects of sports in forming harmonious, healthy, dynamic, and creative individuals cannot be denied. Muğla University provides various sports facilities and organizes plenty of activities of sports and recreation at all levels of ability in order to help students and university members to maintain healthier bodies and minds, to gain discipline and habit of hardworking, to channel their energies towards a better lifestyle, and to have different alternatives for leisure time activities. Football, volleyball, basketball, handball, athletics, badminton, tennis, table tennis, swimming, diving, caving, trekking, climbing, cross training, aerobics, wrestling, and taekwondo are some of the popular indoor and outdoor activities students and staff engage in. Traditional games, races or competitions are organized every year within the University in both individual and team sports. The students' sports activities are coordinated by the Health, Culture and Sports Activities Office. Different sports teams of Muğla University participate in various regional and national sports competitions every year and return with many championships. Facilities Sıtkı Koçman Sports Halls open on weekdays between 08:00-23:00; include such sports areas as 2,250 audience-capacity big games hall, table tennis rooms, aerobics and step rooms, and fitness rooms. Half-Olympic indoor swimming pool 1,000 people-capacity stadium with football field and a running track Outdoor tennis courts 300 audience-capacity sports hall Outdoor sports facilities with 2 tennis courts, 2 basketball courts, 1 volleyball court, and 1 badminton court