Opening day for the Cincinnati Reds is unofficially acknowledged as Cincinnati's national holiday. The original Cincinnati Red Stockings were the first professional baseball team, and the Reds sport over 125 years of tradition and rich history.

FC Cincinnati, nicknamed the "Orange and Blue," proudly joined Major League Soccer in 2019. Matches are played at TQL Stadium, located in the historic West End neighborhood.

The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional American football team based out of Cincinnati, OH. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference North division.

The Cincinnati Open, also known as the Cincinnati Masters, is the second largest summer tennis tournament in the United States (after the U.S. Open).

Every spring more than 36,000 runners and walkers participate in the Flying Pig Marathon weekend events, and tens of thousands more cheer them on as they run a course that winds its way through downtown and Cincinnati's East Side. It is often referred to as "the largest weekend party in town" and everyone can be part of it.