Amongst the more popular leisure choices of 60 adult German workers were swimming, bicycling, and cinema, activities of a social nature. Both sexes were least interested in high-contact, combative sports such as boxing and wrestling. Men tended to express more interest in the traditional sports (tennis, handball, table-tennis, and football), weapons (shooting and archery), and athletics (sprinting, jogging, and endurance running).
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