Cricket, football, and volleyball are quite popular outdoor sports in this district. Being largely a mountainous area, the district is almost without proper sports fields. There are only two play grounds large enough to hold cricket and football matches. Youngsters are, of course, not deterred by this constraint, and they play wherever they find flat lands and space, if not very uneven, or they play on roads.

 Youngsters have formed a large number of groups or teams for various games. The better known sports clubs are : i) body building club, Zindra; 2) volley ball club, Ziarat; 3) foot ball club, Koshbi; 4) Youth Welfare club, Sharqi chema; 5) cricket club, Zindra; 6) foot ball club, Zargat.

 Every year the Ziarat week is organized. Sports teams from all over Balochistan come to Ziarat to take part in tournaments. The games represented in the tournament are cricket, football and volley ball. Also held are wrestling contests, cycle race and tug of war. The tournament is managed by the Ziarat Social Welfare Society with financial assistance from the Deputy Commissioner, Ziarat.

 A number of hiking teams from as far as Karachi come to Ziarat.

 No sports activities exist for women.

Youngsters in the district are very fond of sports, but are confronted with a serious dearth of play grounds due to uneven topography of the area. Official patronage of sports is quite positive but due to financial constraints it is not enough. Sports facilities for women are absent.

 Scarcity of level land is obviously a big natural hurdle to field sports. But a bigger hurdle is the lack of formal governmental arrangements for sports facilitation. The Education Department can be deployed to this end. Every school should have sports facilities, and all local bodies, including the Ziarat Valley Development Authority, should be provided funds for developing play fields, indoor sports facilities, and sports teams at village level. Besides, sports promotion as a part of tourism promotion need to be seriously considered.

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