The purpose of this study aimed to explore leisure participation motivation and leisure benefits for Kaohsiung area high school teachers. A total of 575 high school teachers from Kaohsiung area served as subjects. All subjects were asked to complete demographic data, leisure participation motivation scale and leisure benefit scale. The one-way MANOVA and Canonical Correlation statistics methods were used to analyze the collected data. The result indicated that: (1) male high school teachers had higher scores in need for achievement motivation, need for social motivation and need for health motivation than female high school teachers; (2) male high school teachers had higher scores in physical benefit, psychological benefit and social benefit than female high school teachers; (3) Kaohsiung area high school teachers' "high need for achievement, high need for social and high need for health" leisure participation motivation pattern were correlated with high school teachers' "high physical benefit, high psychological benefit and high social benefit" leisure benefit pattern. Finally, based on the results of the current study, the implications for the coaches and athletes and suggestions for the future studies are discussed.