I’m sure you could do field sports in the Holodeck, but it wouldn’t surprise me if fully interior sports like bowling or hockey became significantly more popular once human civilization started regularly spending time in space stations and ships.
This was also before they had holodecks, so they would have had to have another form of recreation. That was something the crew of the NX-01 kind of struggled with, so it would make sense the next Enterprise would have accomodations
I’m sure you could do field sports in the Holodeck, but it wouldn’t surprise me if fully interior sports like bowling or hockey became significantly more popular once human civilization started regularly spending time in space stations and ships.
This was also before they had holodecks, so they would have had to have another form of recreation. That was something the crew of the NX-01 kind of struggled with, so it would make sense the next Enterprise would have accomodations