The purpose of this study is to investigated the effect of leisure function of students on participation state of leisure sports in Gwangju area. A questionnaire that has total 23 questions is used as a tool to survey. ‘C’, ‘G’, ‘H’, and ‘J’ universities are selected as samples and 525 subjects. The result are following. The first, the participation state of leisure sports for students are followings: the career involvement of leisure activity is three years or more, frequency of participation in a week is once, the time involved is 1-2 hours or less, the expense is 50,000 won or less. Leisure activity is necessary for the work. The reasons of leisure activity is health and fitness. The barrier is time. The motives for participation are health, and maintaining and promoting fitness most. The second, time of leisure participation are influenced negatively on leisure function. However, the expense of leisure and work performance are influenced positively.