Young people activity by gender The chart shows the percentage of young people who participated in six different sports by gender in 1999. Overall, bars for boys and girls were comparable in five disciplines. When it comes to Football, there was significant difference (about twenty per cent for girls opposed to about seventy per cent to boys). There was also difference in Cycling/Riding a bike, where about ten per cent more boys chose that sport. In relation to this, boys were more active than girls. Three disciplines didn’t reach a level of thirty per cent for both genders. The percentages of girls in three disciplines (in Walking, Roller blading/Skate boarding and Swimming ) were slightly larger than the percentages of boys in these sports. Girls were the most active in Swimming, where participation was equal to above fifty per cent and Cycling/Riding a bike. On the other hand, boys were the most active in Football, where under seventy per cent boys chose that discipline. Overall the figures shows that participation was equivalent for both genders except one – football.