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Sport is considered a national pastime in Sweden, and about half of the population actively takes part in sports activities. The most important all-embracing organisations for sports in Sweden are the Swedish Sports Confederation, and the Swedish Olympic Committee. In total over 2 million people (about 20% of the total population) are members of a sports club.

The sports with most participants are handball, football, golf, gymnastics and athletics, while the sports with the largest number of television spectators are football, Ice Hockey, handball, bandy, golf, motor sport (especially speedway) and athletics. Ice hockey and football are the main sports. Winter sports are also popular, both in the number of participants and in spectators, while floorball gained large popularity in the 1990s amongst participants, spectators really grew in the last 5 years to outnumber other team sports amongst the spectators. Other popular sports include bandy, Basketball, orienteering, tennis and Table Tennis. Except for basketball, the American sports have not gained much popularity, although American football and baseball are practised.

Popular recreational sports and activities include brännboll (popular in schools), boule, kubb, skiing, swimming, gymnastics, walking, running,cycling, dancing, fishing and hunting.

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Floorball, soccer, tennis and ice hockey are pretty popular in Sweden.

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we relly never knew but what we think is futball and javes which is the similarty with some thing like soccer

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ice hocky,handball,frisbee,soccer,american football,bandy,and alot more i can't name.

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* Football (soccer) * Ice Hockey * and Bandy

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Soccer and tennis are popular sports in Sweden and in Europe overall. Former number one tennis play, Roger Federer is from Sweden.

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ice hockey is very popular

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Definitely soccer, but otherwise, hockey.

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Ice Hockey

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