Opinion and expectation of the community who come to the parks for doing sports (Applications in Gaziantep)

This study was prepared to determine the opinions and expectations of the community who come to the parks for doing sports. The popoulation consists of the people who come to parks in Gaziantep for doing sports. Including 480 female and 372 male totally 852 people participated to resarch.  Survey method (scanning) and the views and expectations survey which was developed by Tatlı was used for the study. A total number of 852 people, 480 women and 372 men, participated in the research. SPSS 18 statistical packaged software used for analysis of the datas obtained. To comment the results percentage, frequency distribution and X² technique were used. The research results indicated that people come to the parks and doing sport for living a healhty lifestyle, they prefer parks because of free charge and they feel healthy and spry after doing sport. High incidence of the participants want to study with a personal trainer, when consulted by gender women are doing sports to ensure weight control, while men want to do bodybuilding. There is not a significant relation between wish to do sport with a personal trainer and occupational group and when examined the relation between educational status and preference to do sports in parks, it is concluded that primary and secondary school graduates prefer parks because their childen can play in the park while they are doing sport, high school graduates prefer parks because gyms have environment and hygiene problems, university graduates and above prefer parks beacuse gym membership fees are high.