This work aims to understand the senses and meanings of fishing, as a body and leisure practice,
for the riverside community in the city of Tocantinópolis / TO. Fishing, in addition to
subsistence and economic activity in the region, makes use of body techniques covered with
social meanings, which reveal important perspectives about the observed daily life, which
directly imply in the education of the subjects' bodies. Understanding that Physical Education,
as a field of knowledge, needs to potentialize the various forms of use and appropriation of the
body, especially in its sociocultural and educational sense, the practice of fishing can be an
important content in the vast collection to be problematized, including, in the school
environment. That said, we opted to carry out a participatory field research, which we used as
tools of immersion in the investigated reality, observation, open interview and the construction
of field diaries. Altogether it was 2 months of immersion in the field, in this case, part of the
banks of the Tocantins River, between October and November 2020, for 3 times a week, on
average 4 hours a day, in which fishermen and riverside dwellers were interviewed, who made
it possible to understand the relevance of leisure fishing as a way of “escaping” from everyday
chores, representing a moment of rest and recreation among peers. Thus, through the qualitative
analysis of the field records, an intense relationship between the river was also perceived as a
work space, but also for the promotion of playfulness and social gatherings that are
indispensable for the community. Furthermore, the close relationship between riverside
dwellers and the environment, brings to the fore the need to deepen the dialogue between body
and nature, which is very expensive for Physical Education.
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