Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to describe some psychosocial characteristics of non sport participant adolescents. 119 French adolescents, pursuing studies from 6th to 12th grade, participated to this study. They filled out a questionnaire assessing the perceived barriers to sport participation; their motivations for sport; the perceived social support; their degree of adhesion to gender stereotypes attached to sport; and the solutions that could encourage them to practise an activity. If their answers do not indicate an athletic profile they do not reveal either a frank opposition to sport participation. They seem attracted by a recreational or health oriented practice