The graph below shows the participation of Australian children in sports outside school hours in 2014. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart provides information about how many Australian students participated in five various sports activities in 2014. In general, what stands out from the graph is that football was the most interesting athletics for boys,

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netball was for girls. Another interesting point is that basketball and no sports were seen as slight differences in the number of participants for both genders. In detail, football was the most preferred physical exercise for schoolboys, with 20% of them choosing

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sport, compared to women merely just below 5%.

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, female students were by far more interested than

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in playing netball with around 17% and 3% respectively. With regards to swimming, Australian girls were more attracted to swimming than

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with a gap of only around 3%.

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, boys were not as many as girls in choosing no sport, with 4% and 5% consecutively.

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, around 7% of boys considered playing basketball, slightly more than

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who took part in

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game.