This paper discusses the current research status and hot spots of sports parks in China, grasps the development trend of sports park research in China in the future, and uses the methods of literature measurement and mathematical statistics to select 104 documents from the Chinese Core Journal of China Knowledge Network (CNKI) on sports parks for analysis. The results show that the number of papers of sports parks published in Chinese Core Journals in China shows a rapid upward trend from 2018 to 2021; the published media are mainly architectural science and engineering journals instead of sports journals; core authors and research institutions in this field have basically stabilized; frequent keywords are sports park, structure design, community sports, park design, etc.; the research focuses on the basic theory, planning and design, and fitness functions of sports park. Conclusion: at present, the research on sports parks in China is still in developing stage, and the quality of the articles is to be improved in terms of the combination with the national strategy of physical exercises for the whole country; highly cited authors of sports park research should strengthen exchanges and cooperation and form an all-round, multi-field and multi-disciplinary interdisciplinary research on sports disciplines; against the background of the times and research hotspots, the follow-up research should focus on sports parks, national fitness, community sports, ecological sports parks, and public sports facilities, etc.