ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the manifestations of children and young people’s spontaneous sporting activity and how they adapted the everyday spaces around them for sport. In the rural and small-town landscape of particularly eastern Poland, sports facilities were extremely rare. The chapter argues that designating a temporary space as a playing field was not exclusively the domain of the first post-war years. These vernacular and temporary playing fields was one of the modes of situating sport in space in small towns, neighbourhoods, and in the countryside throughout the entire period and after 1989.
