Printing Recreational Sport T-Shirts
Competitive sports are a part of any t-shirt business. Both uniforms and spirit wear for competitive baseball/softball, football, soccer, basketball and hockey are big profit niches. But recreational sport T-shirts can also become an important niche.
Recreation sports are physical activities pursued more for fun than for competition. They focus on leisure and social interaction. Some examples might include pickleball, hiking, swimming and fishing.
Become the Expert
Grow your t-shirt business by sharing your passion. One of our local pickleball players has a side t-shirt business. She brings her “kit” with her each time she plays and takes orders in between games. Her kit is a 3-page printout of designs. You choose the design and color/style of shirt, and she delivers it the following week. Everyone at the court knows we can get shirts from her, and she adds new designs to keep her offering fresh.

Paddleboarding has a passionate audience, making it a great recreational t-shirt niche
Creating the Recreational T-shirt Art
Not an artist, no problem. With our easy-to-use template-based designer, we make it easy to create your art and order your transfers. Choose a layout, add your text, swap out the clip art, size it and choose colors. You can even create mock-ups to help you gather orders by showing what you can do! Or if you see an idea on Pinterest or some other place, use it to create your own using our clip art and fonts.
Choosing The Transfer Type
We offer a wide variety of transfer types so that you can keep your profits high.
UltraColor Max DTF transfers, are perfect for those small orders of a quantity of 1-12. Place all your one-off orders at one time to save on fast shipping.
UltraColor Pro, hybrid transfers are a full color transfer perfect for larger full color orders of 18 or more.
Goof Proof, screen printed transfers are your best option for your 1-2 color orders of 12 or more. Be sure to take advantage of the money saving single image orders. If you need 6 full size 1 color transfers, order the 25 minimum and save. Keep your extras in the box they come in, writing in the contents and how many you have left for an easy inventory system.
Recreational Sport T-Shirts Inspiration
Here is a list of recreational sport t-shirts you might want to be your niche
- Pickleball
- Disc Golf
- Bocce
- Dodgeball
- Badminton
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Canoeing
- Water Skiing
- Skiing
- Archery
- Rock Climbing
- Paddleboarding
- Biking
- Fishing
- Tennis
- Bowling
- Martial Arts
- Kickball
What will be your recreational sport t-shirt niche?