Football, basketball, volleyball, Dragon Boat, jogging, swimming, table tennis, and badminton are among the most popular in the community.
The game is generally played under FIBA rules and basketball courts (both outdoor and indoor) are widely available to the public.
Most of them jog or run early in the morning or in the evening along a public footpath surrounding the Guia Hill in the Macau Peninsula, which is well known among the locals because of its ideal nature for running or jogging – no vehicle traffic, path surrounded by trees and bushes, loop-path, tarmac paving, path wide enough for either directions.
In the past, the tracks were not available to the general public and were only reserved for team training, school's sports day or local competitions.
This is especially beneficial to people who live relatively far from the Guia Hill and are interested in jogging or running on a regular basis.
[5] Macau's only gold medals in the Asian Games were achieved by wushu athletes Jia Rui and Huang Junhua in 2010 and 2018 respectively.
Famous for its combination of fast long straights (a Formula Three car can reach a top speed of 260 km/h at the end of this stretch [8]) and uphill-downhill twists, it has been known as one of the most demanding circuit in the world.
Every year hundreds of racing drivers and riders from the world gather in the enclave and fight for glory in this circuit.
[9] The FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League is known as one of the major international sports events being held in Macau annually.
The Macau Open is a professional golf tournament which is held in May each year since 1998 and is one of the rounds of the Asian Tour.
In 2007, the tournament was categorised by the Badminton World Federation as Grand Prix Gold level event, which carried a total prize money of US$120,000.
The right to host the second edition of the spectacular Asian Indoor Games in 2007 was granted to Macau at the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) General Assembly Meeting, which was held in Kuwait on 24 January 2003.
At the same meeting, the locally designed emblem of the Macau 2007, second Asian Indoor Games was also unanimously approved.
The competition program was composed of six to eight kinds of sports with strong television appeal, including extreme sports, aerobics, acrobatics, indoor athletics, dancesport, futsal, inline hockey, finswimming, and 25 metres short course swimming.
The first Lusophone Games (Portuguese: 1.os Jogos da Lusofonia) were held in the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China between 7 and 15 October 2006.
Won a bronze medal in the women's 52 kg kick boxing competition in the 2017 World Games.