Gyms, swimming pools and clubs to close from Thursday‘Second period of closure will push many facilities over edge’Grassroots sport has been dealt a devastating blow after the government announced gyms, swimming pools and clubs in
England will close from Thursday until early December because of the second national lockdown.
While elite sport will continue, exercise for everyone else will be restricted to unlimited periods outdoors – either with people from their own households or on a one-to-one basis with one person from another household. The government website confirmed that indoor and outdoor leisure facilities – “such as bowling alleys, leisure centres and gyms, sports facilities including swimming pools,
golf courses and driving ranges, dance studios, stables and riding centres and climbing centres” – would all shut, although
Tennis courts were not mentioned.