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Here's a brief guide to our Fitness & Sports section in Belgium.Moving abroad isn’t just about starting a new job, learning the language and setting up home. Once you’ve arrived and settled in, you’ll probably want to find out where you can play your favourite sport, the best places to run or walk in your neighbourhood or where to find the best dance classes or sailing lessons if you're on a coast.
Start by checking out the local expat leagues, expat gyms, and other sports associations. Take a look at our Group and club listings for Belgium.
Even if your sport is obscure, you’ll find that most countries will have a club associated with it, whether it’s football, cricket, rugby, skiing, swimming, tennis or squash, baseball, scuba diving or hand-gliding. Belgium even has its own very active hurling and camogie club.
Expat and local telegraph wire
Use connections to find the locations of the best places to practice a sport or to keep fit. Ask other expats how they keep fit. Find out which dancing schools they’d recommend for their children, which swimming school they use, the best pools to take the children to, for recreation or for serious training.
If you are more into yoga and Pilates, then find out where the best teachers give classes and try it out. If you don't know many expats, then ask via the Expatica Forums. The best result can only be a healthier and happier you.
International sports clubs and other groups
If you’d like to join an international club, then check out Expatica’s Groups & Clubs listings and the Forums & Connect channel. Existing clubs include the Antwerp Cricket Club, Brussels Kangaroos Baseball Club and the Irish International Badminton Club. Or why not go native and take up petanque in the Parc Cinquantenaire!
Great article, but most of the clubs you mention in the links are based in Brussels or Antwerp. Do you know of anything in Ghent?
Thanks in advance!
Great article, but most of the clubs you mention in the links are based in Brussels or Antwerp. Do you know of anything in Ghent?
Thanks in advance!
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