German Sports and Hobbies Vocabulary

Learn vocabulary related to sports and hobbies in German

     

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German Sports and Hobbies

to do sports	Sport treiben	hang-gliding	Drachen fliegen
golf	Golf spielen	windsurfing	Windsurfing gehen
soccer	Fußball spielen	water-skiing	Wasserski fahren
volleyball	Volleyball spielen	fishing	angeln
football	Football spielen	aerobics	Aerobic machen
basketball	Basketball spielen	bungee-jumping	Bungee-jumping gehen
baseball	Baseball spielen	gymnastics	turnen
hockey	Eishockey spielen	mountaineering	bergsteigen gehen
tennis	Tennis spielen	climbing	klettern
table tennis	Tischtennis spielen	judo	Judo machen
bowling	kegeln	weight training	Body-building machen
sailing	segeln	wrestling	ringen
horseback riding	reiten	diving	tauchen
boxing	boxen	to tinker, build things	basteln
roller-skating	Rollschuh laufen	to listen to music	Musik hören
ice-skating	Schlittschuh laufen	to play cards	Karten spielen
skiing	Ski fahren	to collect coins/stamps	Münzen/Briefmarken sammeln
bicycling	Radfahren	to play video games	Videospiele spielen
swimming	Schwimmen gehen	photography	fotografieren
jogging	joggen	to do ceramics	töpfern
hiking	wandern	to draw	zeichnen
camping	Camping gehen	to play chess	Schach spielen
gardening	im Garten arbeiten	to knit	stricken
go out with friends	mit Freunden ausgehen	to watch TV	fernsehen
to lie around, be lazy	faulenzen	go to the movies	ins Kino gehen

 

A lot of sports/hobbies exist as nouns and as verbs, so just as in English, you can say either I like to fish or I like to go fishing. If it's capitalized, it's a noun and if it's not capitalized, it's a verb.

kegeln - to bowl
das Kegeln - bowling

 

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