In Budatín is the horse club where the people can ride in the horses, can have a courses of riding and the club makes sometimes competitions in riding. In a little village near Žilina called Bytcica is a very young construction of automotodrome where the people can drive the motocars,it’s very attractive and popular diversion between tha young people.

Currently the most successful sports in Žilina are: volleyball (men ŠK Stavbár, women VK Slávia Žilina Universtiy), basketball (men BK Váhostav Žilina, women BK Lokomotíva), football (City Sport Club), also women (ŠKF VIX), body building (Sportcentrum). Excellent results on world level achieve sportsmen of TJ Sokol Žilina on wild water (Jaroslav Slúčik and Vladimír Vala).

Generally people from Žilina like to go to the swimming pools,there are many in the region but the most popular are Veronika in Rajecke Teplice, Tatralandia which was constuyed the last year with the thermal water, Besenova which is open in winter too because the hot thermal water and finally the swimming pool in Žilina,with swimming pools out and in the building.

***Žilina IN THE PAST***

The towns territory was settled already in the Ice Age around Zavodie, 20 000 years B.C. The town was inhabited also in Bronze Age, Iron Age and in Roman era. Our predecessors settled in the town's territory in the 5th century. The oldest discovered Slavonian settlement from that time is situated at towns quarter Frambor. From the 9th century originates settlement at Bôrik, and burial places at Bánová. . First written document about the town's territory was dated in 1208 and was mentioned under the name terra de Selinan. In 1297 the name Žilina appears in writings. According to the written documents dated 12 July 1321 Žilina was already a town. The King Charles I Robert of Anjou during his royal visit to our town on 12 July 1321 granted privileges of a free town to Žilina which then were confirmed also by Sigismund I of Luxembourg (1397) and by Vladislaw II Jagello (1497). A significant legal and language document of European importance is the Book of Žilina the origin of which reaches back to 1378 when Mikuláš of Luková made for our town a German copy of the Law of Magdeburg town respected by the town Csesin. The first entry in Slovak language originates from 1451. The last written entries are from the year 1561. The Book is treasured at the State District Archives in Žilina.