Nuns having fun

Getting into the sporting habit

Chris Wild

20th century

Sisters tested the swings at nearby St. Joseph's Village school. Credit: David McLane/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images

Once a year, a boy's-eye view of the scouting movement is given to nuns from several schools in Bergen County, New Jersey. At an outing sponsored by the Catholic Committee on Scouting of North Bergen, Boy Scouts of America, the sisters competed in various events and visited scouting exhibits. Credit: David McLane/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images

Determination written on her face, this pitcher wanted to prove she knew her way around the baseball diamond. Credit: David McLane/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images

A nun who cares for the boys at the St. Thomas Orphanage also teaches them a couple of things about baseball, in Louisville, Kentucky. Credit: Underwood Archives/Getty Images

Two nuns playing baseball. Credit: De Vries/BIPs/Getty Images

A group of nuns plays basketball outdoors at the Ladywell Convent in Godalming, England. Credit: Express Newspapers/Getty Images

A nun enjoys a game of soccer in the garden of her order's villa in Rome, where they also run a fashion house called the "Little Workers of the Holy Heart." Credit: Keystone Features/Getty Images

A nun and a golf coach, Sister Mary Martina takes an iron shot on the golf course at Rosebud Country Club, in Portsea, Victoria, Australia. Looking on are girls from St. Mary's School for the Deaf, who, along with Sister Mary Martina, are being coached by the club's professionals. Credit: Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

A walk across "monkey bridge." Credit: David McLane/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images

A group of nuns plays basketball outdoors at the Ladywell Convent, in Godalming, England. Credit: Express Newspapers/Getty Images

Members of the Order of the Sisters of the Cross training on a basketball court at the College Saint-Laurent in Montreal, Canada. The nuns are training to be sports teachers and will go on to teach in convents all over Quebec. Credit: Bob Moyner/Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

A group of girls from Parochial High School's Pep Club practicing with batons in the gym, while the sister nun is coaching them on. Credit: Nat Farbman/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Three nuns from a children's hospital in Ruhpolding, Upper Bavaria, go cross-country skiing in their spare time. Credit: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Sister Mary Thomas (right), an administrator at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, convinces another nun of the convenience try an electric scooter. Credit: Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Two nuns in their habits frolicking in the ocean. Credit: American Stock/Getty Images