Research of anthropological characteristics was conducted on a sample of 51 elementary school students from age of 8-15 years. Of these, 25 students train basketball three times a week, and the remaining 26 are not concerned with the additional physical activity, they are only attending regular program of physical education. Students who have participated in the research and train basketball are all boys, unlike students who dont do any kind of sports, where participated 17 male and 9 female students. The aim of this research is to determine difference in the level of anthropological characteristics of basketball players and elementary school students passing primary school program of physical education and find out how many students are into sport, their interests, what makes them attracted to sport, in what ways do they come to news about sport, how much do they know about their school sports club "Goran" and how much is sport important to them. The result of studies of anthropological characteristics in a group of students who train basketball and group pasding only elementary school program of physical education in most anthropometric characteristics are very similar, somewhere, almost the same. The difference is visible only in bidy height and fat percentage. Motor skills of students playing basketball showed clearly better results than of students who do not play basketball. The results of survey show that out of total of 143 elementary school students, 87 of them are active in sports,29 students participate in sports and the remaining 27 stidents do not engage in any additional physical activity. From the questions on the survey it is found what is the most popular sport among the children, do they follow sports, do they follow sport in their city, what makes them attracted to sport activities, to basketball and the importance of sport for children.