SUMMARY
Public awareness to do the recreational sports activities was still lacking. This was influenced by the self-awareness to do the recreational sports and as well as the availability of supporting facilities and infrastructure to do the recreational sports activities. Doing recreational sports had several benefits including the emergence pleasure, joy and the body becomes more fit and healthy. The research approach used by researchers was a qualitative and quantitative research approach. The location of this research was at the Gelora Sriwijaya Jakabaring stadium. The target in this study was people with age 15 - 50 years who do recreational sports, then a sample of 30 people was taken. Questionnaire was used to analyze the data. The variable in this study was motivation. The test results were tabulated into the data table and then analyzed using the percentage statistical formula to determine people's motivation in doing recreational sports. After being analyzed, the results and conclusions showed that the presence of the Sriwijaya Jakabaring Gelora Stadium could increase people's motivation to do recreational sports at a very high level.