Background. Given the importance of women and their role in society, women's recreational sports are considered as one of the major issues in the fields of sports and leisure. Objectives. This qualitative study, which was conducted using an exploratory approach, aims to determine the contextual conditions of Iranian women's recreational sports. Methods. The statistical population of the research consisted of all the experts who had practical and scientific expertise in the fields of recreational sports and women's sports is conducted with a method and was selected using Purposive Sampling and Snowball method. Data collection tools included interviews and note-taking processes. After conducting 17 interviews (with 16 elites and 1 Canon group), the researcher reached theoretical saturation and after the data collection procedure, the data was analyzed using MAXQDA10 software and Qualitative Content Analysis. Results. 1254 initial codes or open codes were extracted after the analysis. To further categorize the data, the codes and raw data were constantly compared based on the similarities and differences, and similar codes were placed under the same category. The initial categorization of codes yielded 51 sub-categories which were further categorized into 22 categories in the next step. The obtained concepts were divided into eight major categories (in stage of selective coding) which consisted of socio-cultural, fundamentals of Islam, political, economic, geographical environments and macro-management, media and advertisement, and sports facility issues. Conclusion. Considering the importance of recreational sports in women, a proper understanding of the context of recreational sports can help the sport managers to apply appropriate strategies to develop it and compensate for its backwardness.

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伊朗妇女休闲运动的背景

背景。考虑到妇女的重要性及其在社会中的作用，妇女的休闲运动被视为运动和休闲领域的主要问题之一。目标。这项定性研究是采用探索性方法进行的，旨在确定伊朗妇女休闲运动的背景条件。方法。本研究的统计人群由在娱乐体育和女子体育领域具有实践和科学专业知识的所有专家组成，采用的是一种方法，并采用有目的抽样和雪球法进行了选择。数据收集工具包括访谈和记笔记过程。在进行了17次采访（包括16名精英和1个佳能团队）之后，研究人员达到了理论上的饱和，并且在进行了数据收集之后，数据使用MAXQDA10软件和定性内容分析法进行了分析。结果。分析后提取了1254个初始代码或开放代码。为了进一步对数据进行分类，根据相似性和差异不断对代码和原始数据进行比较，并将相似的代码置于同一类别下。代码的初始分类产生51个子类别，在下一步中将其进一步分类为22个类别。获得的概念分为八个主要类别（在选择性编码阶段），这些类别包括社会文化，伊斯兰教的基础知识，政治，经济，地理环境和宏观管理，媒体和广告以及体育设施问题。结论。考虑到休闲运动对妇女的重要性，