#and ive gone with nogtail hunts usually being on broomsticks. though sometimes a winged horse can be used

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Physical activity is important for children’s health and growth. Is there anything equivalent to PE in Hogwarts? Does anyone practice any sports other than quidditch?

The text suggests “no”, so I’m much more interested in headcanons!

A hufflepuff running club that jogs together every morning?

Gryffindor broom-racing team, sprint and long distance, and air-hurdles?

Broom-jousting?

Wild swimming in the lake?

Yoga at the astronomy tower?

Magical Highland Games?

I suppose a duelling club can also count as a sport, as it can be very physical!

Bonus question, if you can indulge us… how are the Marauders keeping fit? (As in healthy, not as in hot)

Honestly, I think they're keeping fit by climbing up and down all the staircases on a daily basis haha. Especially Gryffindors and Ravenclaws who, apart from needing to get from the Great Hall to their classes, live in towers. Tbh this might be why those are generally the best Quidditch teams lmao. Hmm... towerspiracy.

And then a lot of the classes themselves are quite active. Charms, Herbology, Care of Magical Creatures, Defence (barring Umbridge) especially. Remember when the trio had to wrestle the Snargaluff in HBP? Xtreme Gardening. Magic is an active practice in general, so in particular these classes at Hogwarts would be much more active than normal classes would be in a Muggle school, which mostly involve sitting at a desk. I don't know that the average Hogwarts student would need much else tbh, and for those that are particularly athletically inclined there's Quidditch.

So that's my honest answer, which also goes for the Marauders. Peter was probably a bit less fit than James and Sirius, but James is an athlete and Sirius is a very active person generally, he does a lot of duelling. And Remus was likely not very healthy because of his transformations.

There are magical sports/games other than Quidditch though-- and duelling can definitely count as a sport, as you say. In Quidditch Through the Ages there's a few different (broom) sports talked about, like Shuntbumps and broom racing, but Shuntbumps (which is basically broom jousting haha) is a kid's game and there doesn't seem to be broom racing at Hogwarts. As is mentioned in QTtA, the extreme popularity of Quidditch in Britain eclipses basically any other sport. I'd like to see broom polo or some kind of magical field hockey though, that would be fun.

Also I did at one point have Snape and Avery play (English) billiards on a special table where they used their wands to magically propel the balls instead of a cue, and I also think magical snooker would exist in the same way. Maybe a form of magical darts?

The other things I've used in my fic are magical horse racing (though in the sense of characters betting rather than playing) and Nogtail hunting-- which is canon, mentioned by McLaggen, and which I took as the magical equivalent of fox hunting, a cruel, thankfully now mostly illegal 'sport' traditionally practised by the upper class. This is fairly important in this part of my fic since the Rosiers are avid hunters haha. And I was going to invent some kind of equivalent to shooting (birds) but I haven't rly thought about that yet except that they use (magical, self-reloading) crossbows instead of guns.

Anyway, I don't think any of these would be done at Hogwarts though lmao. The room of requirement could provide a snooker table or a dartboard or something if someone really wanted to play haha.

But I like your ideas! Non-Quidditch players might be a bit stiff and inflexible so they could probably use some yoga haha. And I can see students informally playing Shuntbumps in the grounds. I would have liked to see more extracurricular groups in general, honestly. In the HBP video game if anyone played that, the potion's club was my absolute fave haha.