The aim of this study was to evaluate the factors which affect participation in recreational court tennis in terms of gender and age. 105 males (age: 30.37±11.74 years, height: 178.37±7.36 cm, and mass: 79.05±11.81 kg) and 101 females (age: 27.22±8.70 years, height: 166.59±6.72 cm, and mass: 60.60±9.24 kg), who participated in court tennis recreationally, made up the sample of the study. The factors which affect participation in court tennis recreationally were determined by the Recreational Exercise M otivation M easure which was originally developed by Rogers and M orris (2003) and adapted into Turkish by Gürbüz et al. (2006). The Independent Samples T-Test revealed that the female participants had higher scores in the health and body -appearance subdimensions of the scale than the males (p<0.05). No statistically significant differences were found in terms of gender in the other subscales (p>0.05). Differences between participants' demographic characteristics (monthly income, marital status and level of education) were assessed by Chi-square test and there was no difference between groups in terms of demographic characteristics (p>0.05). Pearson correlation analysis revealed a weak, negative correlation (r= -0.179) between age and competition scores of the scale. There was no correlation between age and the other subdimensions of the scale (p>0.05). Female participants were more involved in tennis for physical appearance than men. In both males and females, as age increased, participation in tennis aiming at competition decreased.