Abstract: The social support of sports participation can effectively promote woMen's physical, mental health and life satisfaction, making women have a healthy lifestyle, and in turn promotes the harmonious development of society. Through the literature, this paper reviewed the existing research on the social support of woMen's sports participation from the aspects of concept, theory, method and content. It extracted the five dimensions of social support system of woMen's sports participation, and founded that the current research content is relatively simple, mainly based on quantitative research methods. Therefore, based on the body theory and feminist theory, this study proposed to build a social support system for woMen's sports participation from the aspects of gender, role, power and status, with social network, social environment, built environment, social media and social belief as the core, which hopefully would contribute to the establishment of a comprehensive promotion mechanism of woMen's sports participation from both theoretical and practical aspects.

Key words: women, sports participation, social support, promotion mechanism