High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Macau residents participate in a wide variety of sports for recreation and competition. Football, basketball, volleyball, Dragon Boat, jogging, swimming, table tennis, and badminton are among the most popular in the community. Local leagues and competitions are organized regularly every year, but owing to Macau`s small population (about half a million) professional leagues are financially unfeasible and so most participants are merely local sport enthusiasts.