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Sports in Chinese

sports · HSK 2

运动 yùn dòng

  1. 运 yùn to move
  2. 动 dòng to move

Counted with 项: 一项运动 yí xiàng yùndòng

我最喜欢的运动是游泳。 My favorite sport is swimming.

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Other ways to say sports

More words with 运 or 动

How do you say sports in Chinese?

Sports in Chinese is 运动 (yùn dòng). You can also say 体育 (tǐ yù).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.