The purpose of the study is to analyze the participation and perceived values of the collegiate recreational sports. In addition, the survey tests if there exists significant difference among demographic and social variables such as sex, major, grades, and GPA. The subjects are the collegiate students registered in 1997. By stratified sampling a total number of 1830 students were selected. Finally, 1578 completed questionnaire were returned and return rate was about 86.2%. The questionnaire was design to collect personal information, perceived values, facility needs, and obstacles of the collegiate recreational sports. The results show that most students take part in collegiate recreational sports one to three times and one to three hours a week. The male subject’s participation is higher than female’s significantly and that of the low grade students is higher than that of the students with higher grade. Most students agree that the importance of the collegiate recreational sports skill, respect others, and communication skills. The popular collegiate recreational sports are health, energy, balance, relaxation, team work, achievement, friendship, sports, skill, respect others, and communication skills. The popular collegiate recreational sports are informal sports, aquatics, outdoor recreation, jogging , intramural sports, sport clubs and fitness center. The major obstacles of collegiate recreational sports are busy in study, lack of company, insufficient facility, wrong time, no interest, lack of knowledge or skill. Hopefully the results can help the promotion of collegiate recreational sports education, effectiveness of the operation, the planning and design of facility and programming of collegiate recreational sports.