Abstract: To understand the status quo of sports lifestyle of the elderly in city in Hainan Island and reveal the factors affecting participating in physical exercise，the elderly in city who participate in physical fitness monitoring in 2004 were investigated and analyzed，which include sports values，sports behavior and sports consumption and so on. The results showed that the habit of physical exercise of urban elderly people has taken shape，however，the sports idea is conservative; the overall level of sports consumption ability is low; the form of physical exercise is casual; the selection of projects tends to diversity.