Sports and activities
Las Vegas is not exactly renowned for its healthy lifestyle, but
if you start to feel the need for exercise, opportunities do exist.
For visitors, the highest profile activity these days is
golf . The city currently boasts around forty golf courses,
and is adding more at a ferocious rate. Most casinos do at least
have a swimming pool , with the larger ones on the Strip
offering full-service spas and tennis facilities as well.
"Locals" casinos, on the other hand, usually out in more
residential neighborhoods, specialize in offering popular
year-round indoor pursuits such as bowling and
ice-skating .
As for spectator sports , despite the best efforts of
Mayor Goodman - who's on record as saying that "until you have
major league sports, you'll always be thought of as a minor-league
town" - Las Vegas lacks high-profile professional teams. Although
tourists flock from all over the nation to watch events like the
Super Bowl on large-screen TVs - and of course, bet on them - the
only sport to regularly draw sizable crowds for live action is
championship boxing .
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