Recommended slogans for an elementary school sports day

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Graduated from Kunitachi College of Music, Faculty of Music (now: Department of Music Culture and Education, Early Childhood Music Education major). In elementary school, my homeroom teacher was Jun Kusaba, a game researcher. After graduating from university, I worked as a kindergarten teacher for 10 years and as an after-school childcare instructor for 7 years, then took a position as a music teacher at an international school in Singapore. In addition to music education, I engaged in activities that introduced Japanese culture, traditional games, and recreational activities, working with many children. Later, through freelance writing, planning, and editing at Shogakukan, I met many delightful adults and experienced the joy of communicating and sharing. Drawing on the perspective cultivated in the field of education and my experience as an editor, I provide practical information with an emphasis on both input and output, mainly in areas related to music and children. My hobbies include instruments, singing, handicrafts, toys, drawing, traditional games, the outdoors, and books. My special skill is spinning-top tricks.
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A person from the melodic hardcore boom generation who loves music, photography, and eating. I’ve been going to live houses for over 20 years. I’m at the age where summer festivals are starting to feel tough physically. I sometimes try shooting live photos and videos for MVs. I’m not great at English, so I often listen to straightforward Japanese rock that hits directly, but if someone recommends something, I’ll listen to anything—Western or Japanese—broadly and casually. I like cooking while listening to music; it’s a nice way to relieve stress.

One thing you can’t do without at a sports day is a slogan.

Elementary school students span a wide range of ages, and their understanding of kanji and English varies.

That’s why it’s important to choose words that everyone can understand and remember easily.

Here, we’ve gathered recommended slogans for elementary school sports days just like that.

It’s full of ideas to help everyone join forces and create a fun and exciting sports day.

Let’s unite our hearts with a slogan and make wonderful memories!

Please use this as a reference and make it a fantastic sports day!

Parody/Humor (11–20)

Shut up! The winner takes it all.

It’s a slogan that conveys a greedy determination to win by any means necessary.

Since it’s a line from Gian, a character in the beloved anime Doraemon, it carries a straightforward, unpretentious emotion.

The word “Urusee!” (“Shut up!”) is also striking, and in the context of a sports festival, it feels like a forceful push that knocks away your anxieties.

It’s a phrase that not only expresses an obsession with victory but also communicates a strong will to rally and lead teammates.

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Attack! ~Mud stains, to an amazing whiteness!~

It’s a slogan that conveys a powerful drive to push straight toward victory and a smart, determined will to clinch the win.

Borrowing from the laundry detergent “Attack,” it playfully pairs words that evoke both sports and detergent.

It highlights a gritty, all-out attitude that shrugs off muddy stains and a lofty goal to dye the scene in one’s own colors.

Because it also calls to mind a laundry detergent, the phrase evokes the fresh air of youth, which makes it especially memorable.

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Power! Yeah!

To seize victory at the sports festival, it’s important to truly demonstrate teamwork and the effort you’ve built up.

This is a cheerful, straightforward slogan that seems to express unleashing the power within the body.

It evokes the signature bit of Nakayama Kinnikun—who is active both as a comedian and a bodybuilder—conveying nothing but boundless energy in the most direct way.

It feels like a shout to showcase one’s strength, a phrase that brightly lifts and amplifies our own power.

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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 well-known work in which Gen Hoshino and Yui Aragaki starred, “We Married as a Job!” (literally, “Running away is shameful but useful”).

While the original title conveys that sometimes it’s important to run away, here it expresses a strong will not to run, tailored to the context of a sports festival.

It evokes a call to press on toward victory without fleeing.

It also feels like words directed at teammates, a phrase that conveys a sense of bonds and unity.

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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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Parody/Humor (21–30)

Priceless: There are victories that money can’t buy.

It’s a slogan that conveys how winning at a sports day becomes a priceless memory etched in your heart.

It’s an adaptation of the catchphrase used in MasterCard commercials that makes you reflect on things money can’t buy.

The twist from “priceless value” to “priceless victory” is unique, with only a single character changed.

It also conveys lofty goals, strong determination to seize an irreplaceable win, and a warm cheer for teammates.

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English-related (21–30)

English-language slogans look stylish and cool, don’t they? They also seem to create a good overall cohesion when used on signs.

Some might be a bit difficult or hard to understand, but among them, the relatively simple ones that stay short and clear even when translated into Japanese are recommended.

They look cool in printed materials, too.

I suggest adding the Japanese translation like a subtitle, as in “We can do it! 〜やればできる!〜.”