Free time is an area of various activities with rich educational potential. Free activities outside kindergarten encourage children's social development, provide children with space to practice and acquire new skills, and are usually fun for children. In the organization of free activities, a very responsible but creative possibility of organization arises, where the parent, mostly the leader of the free activity, accepts the role of pedagogue, in exchange for the child's kindergarten teachers. The work aims to emphasize the importance of children's independent choice of free activities, with special emphasis on sports activities outside kindergarten. The subject of this paper is the involvement of pre-school children in non-kindergarten sports activities in the city of Đakovo, while the goal of this research is to determine whether children in the city of Đakovo engage in sports activities outside of kindergarten, in what number and what type of sports activities. The research method will be a survey in which parents of children attending kindergarten will participate. The results of the research determined the percentage of children involved in a specific activity outside kindergarten, where it is clearly visible that the number of those who participate in sports activities outside kindergarten is not that large, out of a total of 149 respondents, 64 of them confirm that the child is engaged in sports activities outside kindergarten, and most often they play football, zumba, athletics as well as gymnastics and tennis, and the least they do folklore, jiu jitsu and majorettes.