Recommended for junior high school sports days and athletic festivals! A collection of funny slogans

Last updated:2025/5/23

Recommended for junior high school sports days and athletic festivals! A collection of funny slogans

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At sports festivals, we put up slogans to boost everyone’s motivation to give it their all.

Straightforward slogans like “Let’s do our best” or “Let’s aim for victory” are great, of course—but if you’re making one, wouldn’t you like to stand out from other teams with a fun, catchy phrase?

In this article, we’ve gathered ideas for amusing slogans recommended for junior high school sports festivals.

We’ll introduce a variety of phrases, organized by genre, including playful twists on well-known commercial taglines and famous quotes from celebrities and anime characters.

Use these ideas as inspiration when creating your own slogan!

Interesting phrases (1–10)

First, let’s introduce some original and funny phrases.

You don’t have to borrow someone’s words or a work’s title—just a bit of wordplay can create a fun slogan.

If you’ve got a teammate who’s good at language, reads a lot, or is interested in words, collaborating to come up with original phrases can become a great sports festival memory, so it’s highly recommended.

You can use the phrases we introduce as-is, or use them as inspiration to make your own! Create the most entertaining slogan around and stand out at the sports festival!

Everyone is living their best life

Speaking of sports festivals, while striving for victory is important, working together with your teammates matters just as much.

By deepening bonds and aiming for a single goal, the time spent at the festival becomes even more fulfilling.

Here’s a phrase that focuses on making that festival time truly meaningful.

It packs into a short line the hope that everyone who participates can say they’re genuinely living their best life.

By declaring the intention to pursue fulfillment for all, it may also strengthen the desire to cooperate with teammates.

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Now then! Let’s raise the white flag of victory!

At many sports festivals, teams are often divided by color.

Here’s a fun slogan you can use when your team color is white.

It clearly expresses the determination to work together and seize victory so you can raise your team’s flag high.

However, if your team color is white, it ends up sounding like you’re raising a white flag in surrender.

It’s a straightforward phrase about hoisting the flag of victory, yet the meaning gets twisted—making it a uniquely fitting line that only the White Team can pull off.

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Etch a white history into the Reiwa era!

A powerful slogan that boldly declares the goals we aim for at the sports festival and inspires our teammates.

By incorporating the phrase “engrave history,” it straightforwardly conveys our determination to perform in a way that will be remembered by future generations.

Including the current year is also an important point, as it shows our commitment to facing this moment with everything we’ve got.

And by adding the term “white history” to these strong words, a touch of humor is created.

Using the non-existent phrase “white history” to mirror “black history,” which is used to describe embarrassing past memories, clearly expresses the desire to make the sports festival a good memory.

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[Only/Nothing but] 〇〇 for the win!

It’s a slogan that powerfully declares that our team and teammates are the absolute best, and highlights how amazing they are.

The original inspiration is the phrase “oshi shika katan,” which expresses how strongly someone feels about the thing they love.

Since a sports festival is all about striving for victory with your friends, the word “win” fits perfectly.

If you include your teammates’ names, it can be used to cheer them on; if you include the team name, it strongly emphasizes unity and bonds.

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We gotta win! Will you let us win, Kurenai?

By hoisting a slogan that incorporates our team color, we can clearly showcase our unity to our opponents.

Here’s a slogan you can use when your team color is red—one that adds humor to the drive for victory.

It firmly weaves in the words “aka” and “kurenai” (both meaning shades of red) and uses them in a pun-like way to highlight a lighthearted vibe.

By pushing a slogan that almost feels like a gag, it may ease tension and help everyone move forward in a more relaxed state.

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You are the hero of XX!

While teamwork is important at a sports day, the emergence of standout heroes is also a key factor in building excitement.

This slogan conveys a powerful hope that anyone can become a hero, while anticipating the arrival of such heroes.

Imagining what kind of hero they might be—a hero who represents the school, or one who symbolizes the team—adds to the fun.

We also recommend a version that shifts the focus from a single hero to the idea that everyone can be a different kind of hero.

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History moves today.

At events, unexpected things sometimes happen, and they can influence the outcome or amp up the excitement.

This slogan conveys the idea of staying sharp and giving it our all to the very end, while hoping for those big, electrifying moments.

Whether someone makes a breakthrough performance or an unexpected problem arises, just imagining what might change history can energize the event.

By raising this slogan, it might even inspire some people to resolve to perform so well that they can truly say they changed history.

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