Sport activities are something that every person should dedicate part of their free time to, but nowadays, knowing the world we live in, we realize that more and more children are turning to a sedentary lifestyle. The aim of this study is to compare how much time school-age children spend on doing sports or physical activity and how much on playing video games. The aim is also determinating which of the following solutions would they prefer to spend their free time on, depending on whether they live in the city or in the countryside. The participants in the research were elementary school children from 1st to 8th grade. Part of the participants are attending two elementary schools in urban areas, while the other part attend two schools from rural areas. The study involved 458 participants, who were divided into two subsamples. The first subsample were 276 students from urban areas, while the second one were 182 students from rural areas. The results of the research were collected through an anonymous online questionnarie, which was consisted of thirteen questions related to sport activities and playing video games. Differences between gender and proportion of children's response rate, in both urban and rural areas, were tested by the Chi-squared test. The results of this research showed that a large share of the participants (in both environments) is engaged in sport activities. They also showed that the male participants in urban areas engage in sport activities more often than female participants. However, compared to male participants in both areas, it is shown that female participants spend less time on playing video games. Also, the results indicate that both male and female students tend to spend their free time equally on physical activities and video games, regardless of the environment in which they live. Although we live in a century where a sedentary lifestyle prevails, it should be emphasized that most children engage in physical activities , which positively contributes to their present and future health.