Sports
• Football: AS Rodos and Diagoras F.C., both Rhodes City based teams, compete professionally at the national level. Local football leagues (organized at the prefecture level) contain three divisions with more than 50 teams. Many stadiums are grass covered.
• Basketball: Colossus BC sponsors professional basketball and has joined the Greek A1 League. The local league includes two divisions with 14 teams. Two indoor courts exist in Rhodes City, and one each in Ialysos and Kremasti. Several other are planned for Rhodes City Pales De Sports, Faliraki, Afantou, and South Rhodes.
• Volleyball: local teams only.
• Water Polo: mostly amateur based. There is no single indoor pool on the island.
• Rugby: introduced in 2007. Teams compete at the national level.
• Tennis: tennis has a long history on the island.
• Sailing: widely developed, offers competition at the international level.
• Cycling: for a long period of time Rhodes had the only cycling track in Greece, producing Olympics level competitors.
• Rhodes competes in the bi-annual Island Games, which it hosted in 2007
In popular culture
• In ancient times there was a Roman saying: "Hic Rhodus, hic salta!"—"Rhodes is here, here perform your jump", an admonition to prove one's idle boasts by deed rather than talk. It comes from an Aesop's fable called "The Boastful Athlete", and was cited by Hegel and Marx.
• Lawrence Durrell's Reflections on a Marine Venus (1953) is the author's semi-autobiographical account of his stay on the Island after World War II.
• Many of the outdoor scenes of The Guns of Navarone (starring Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn) and Escape to
