The purpose of this study was to investigate the elderly’s participation constraint of sport activity in Gangwon province. To attain the purpose of this study, 50 the aged of Wonju in Gangwon were selected as participants and the opened questionnaire and 8 in-depth interviewer were executed. The main findings of this study were as follows: 1. There are two kinds of the elderly’s participation constraint of sport activity in Gangwon province. Those are personal barrier and socio-environmental barrier factor. The personal barrier factors consist of physical barrier, mental barrier and free time-economic barrier. The Elderly feels lack of physical, emotional, mental and have no time and money. Those are why the Elderly couldn’t participate their own sport activity. 2. Second the Elderly’s participation constraint of sport activity is the socio-environmental barrier factor. The socio-environmental barrier factor is made up environment and social welfare for the Elderly. Informants feeling lack of facilities, programs and leaders for sport activity, moreover, they feeling lack of social welfare and policy for actual targets. That is, those lacks made people sentiment of privation. These factors made the elderly can’t afford to participate sport activity in Gangwon province.