Abstract: To grasp accurately the historical value of the sport thoughts of John Locke, the British sport thinker, the paper refines the Locke’s view on sport and analyzes Locke’s thoughts on sports in the context of sport history by literature review. It puts forward that Locke broke the heavy chains on sport from the mind dualism by planting sport into the ecosystem of "rights". He found a national way for sport from the view of happiness. He built a bridge between sport and individuals’ comprehensive development of people and enabled sports completely integrate into education area, and ultimately led sports to the way towards its transformation into modern sports. Right, rational and individuals’ comprehensive development constitutes the whole system of Locke’s sport thoughts which brought about the transition of ancient European sports into a modern one.

Key words: rights, rational, individuals’ comprehensive development, sports thoughts, sports transformation