8 places
Twice-weekly ultimate frisbee on the grass at Za'abeel Park, from a club that teaches beginners from scratch.
Pickup basketball almost every night of the week at Al Wasl Club, from a group with 2,500+ past games.
Near-daily free beach volleyball on the Kite Beach courts, with a fixed setter rotation so beginners still get touches.
An app that sells single spots in organised pickup football at set pitches, so you never need to round up a team.
A flat 30 dirhams gets you an hour of outdoor football three nights a week with a group rated highly by over a thousand players.
Four games a week split between indoor courts and sand, so you can pick the surface and the side of town.
Two hours of indoor full-court games in an air-conditioned school gym, which makes it one of the few pickup options that works in August.
Indoor social badminton twice a week, so you get doubles partners without having to book and fill a court yourself.