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!

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Shōhai Emi-sen (Kappa Ebisen)

A slogan made up of kanji characters gives a strong sense of momentum and power, and it can put pressure on your opponent too.

By putting your feelings for the sports festival into each character, you can strengthen your unity and morale even more.

The phrase 勝敗笑美戦 carries a positive message for competition: “Whether we win or lose, we’ll smile and fight beautifully.” While the characters and their meanings convey a sense of drive, it’s also unique that, when you consider the reading, it sounds like the name of the well-known snack “Kappa Ebisen.”

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Attack on Class 〇

This is a slogan inspired by the title of Attack on Titan, a work that portrays humanity’s fight for survival and its battles against giants.

As a story about confronting fear and facing the unknown, the title itself conveys a strong sense of resolve.

With its dynamic, high-impact battle scenes, it’s a perfect phrase for sports settings as well.

It also simply expresses the idea of charging forward, making it a phrase that conveys a drive toward victory and the will to cast off anxiety.

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You can win even if you’re late. Give the teacher a tearful first victory.

Even if we aren’t strong, this slogan embodies a powerful will to push toward victory and a desire to dedicate that victory to the teacher who has supported us.

It’s a phrase inspired by the drama “Even If We’re Weak, We Can Win: Mr.

Aoshi and the Clumsy High School Baseball Team’s Ambition,” building on the original wording while packing in our own feelings.

If everyone on the team shares the wish for our teacher to rejoice in our win, our unity will grow and we’ll draw closer to victory.

It’s a slogan that conveys a relentless drive to win—facing challenges with the techniques and hard work we’ve built up.

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Animal Gathering: The Forest of the XX Group

The game Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been hugely popular.

I’m sure many of you have played it.

Once you start collecting bugs, fish, and furniture, there’s no end to it, right? How about using a slogan that plays on the game’s nickname, “Atsumori,” like “Gather in the Forest of the ___ Team”? The word “atsumare” carries a sense of “friendship” and “togetherness,” so I think it’s perfect for a sports festival slogan.

If you make a big flag, drawing everyone’s portraits in an Animal Crossing–style would definitely get people excited!

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Running away is shameful, and you can’t win that way!

This is a slogan inspired by the title of the drama “We Married as a Job.” By referencing the drama’s title, it can also evoke the drama’s themes and its bittersweet atmosphere.

While the original nuance includes a positive view of ‘sometimes it’s okay to run away,’ here it’s adapted to the context of a sports festival, emphasizing rejecting escape and adopting a stance of facing challenges head-on.

Let’s draw strength from a phrase that powerfully expresses confronting difficulties without running away, and advance toward victory.

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It’s the strongest of the strongest.

Believing in our own strength and bonds and charging forward leads to showcasing our abilities and reaching even higher goals.

This slogan conveys that we already have the power to achieve such lofty aims.

It’s inspired by Cho Tokimeki♡Sendenbu’s “Mojokyu ni Kawaii no!” and intentionally carries a cute vibe—that’s part of its charm.

While it does highlight strength, it deliberately avoids sounding intimidating, which, in turn, conveys a sense of true strength.

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Top Gun

It’s a slogan that seems to do nothing more than invoke the title of the action film Top Gun, known for its fighter-jet action.

By packing deep meaning into a short phrase that looks like it simply displays the movie’s title, it can also serve as a kind of code understood within the team.

The word “Top Gun” is a condensed expression of the obsession with victory—“we’re going all out to be on top.” Not only does it abbreviate the sentiment, but thanks to the film’s imagery, it also conveys the atmosphere of battle.

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Celebrity jokes and famous phrases (1–10)

Finally, here are some example sentences that use celebrities’ jokes and famous phrases! Every year, celebrities leave behind lots of memorable quotes that even get nominated for the Buzzword of the Year awards.

Hidden among them are many expressions that are perfect for sports day slogans.

Comedy routines, in particular, are easy to adapt and highly recommended! Also, words from athletes carry the spirit of competitors striving for victory, so in addition to being entertaining, they can convey a strong determination to win and a powerful sense of resolve.