the city often runs advertising campaigns highlighting the value of rio as a huge outdoor gym, and inviting all residents to take advantage of it, and to stay healthy.

the prefecture also encourages all citizens to practice all types of sports, and continuously invests in sporting events as well as in improving its public sporting infrastructures such as open air gyms, work out points, free gyms for the elderly, and bike routes.

in fact, cycling has become very important, with public bicycles being now available to be rented, and hundreds of kilometers of bicycle paths accessible across rio.

soccer is the national sport and of key importance in rio, with residents closely following the scores of one of the four main city teams.