día de los deportes
/dia de los depoɾtes/from spelling rules
día de los deportes is the Spanish phrase for sports day.
día de los deportes refers to a day dedicated to athletic competitions and activities. If you are specifically referring to a school-based event, you may also use Día de los Deportes Escolares or Día de Competencias Deportivas Escolares.
What does it mean word for word?
The phrase día de los deportes is a literal translation of day of the sports.
Which one should you use?
While día de los deportes is a standard way to express the concept, jornada deportiva is a common alternative used to describe a sports meet or a day of sporting events.
Is there a formal and an informal way to say it?
jornada deportiva is a more formal term and is frequently used in official institutional or school communications.
Is it said differently in some regions?
In Spain, Jornada Deportiva is often used to refer to Sports Day.
How does it change in a sentence?
When referring to a specific event in a sentence, you should use the definite article el before the phrase, as in el día de los deportes.
Did you know?
- In many Spanish-speaking cultures, school sports events are less about individual trophies and more about convivencia, a word for the communal harmony of living and playing together.
- The word deporte comes from the Old French desport, which meant 'leisure' or 'diversion' rather than organized athletic competition.
- In Spanish, the word jornada used in jornada deportiva originally referred to the distance a traveler could walk in a single day.
Examples in context
- Mañana es el Día de los Deportes en nuestra escuela. Todos los estudiantes están emocionados.Tomorrow is Sports Day in our school. All the students are excited.
- Vamos a organizar un Día de sana competencia deportiva en el parque.We're going to organize a Sports Day of healthy competition in the park.
Example conversation
Two students are talking about their school calendar.
- MaríaMateo, ¿cuándo es el día de los deportes?Mateo, when is sports day?
- MateoEs el próximo viernes, María.It is next Friday, María.
- María¡Qué bien! Quiero correr en la carrera.Great! I want to run in the race.
- MateoYo también voy a participar.I am going to participate too.
Sources
- IPA marked “from spelling rules” is derived from standard Spanish spelling, where Wiktionary gives none.
