Campus Recreation provides recreation and wellness programs and facilities to campus and the surrounding community through memberships and daily passes. Activities are wide ranging, including intramural sports, group fitness classes, outdoor adventures, aquatics, ice skating, wellness services, and personal training.

Indoor facilities include a full service Campus Recreation Center East, featuring an aquatic center, three basketball courts, two multipurpose rooms, racquetball courts, fitness equipment, a multi-activity court, and an indoor jogging track; the UI Ice Arena features one sheet of ice for hockey, ice skating, and speed skating; the Outdoor Center; and a renovated facility opening in spring 2008. Outdoor facilities feature the Outdoor Center Fields with basketball courts, tennis courts, sand volleyball courts, an inline rink, and field space for soccer and flag football; the Complex Fields with four softball diamonds, two rugby pitches, soccer fields, lacrosse fields, and space for flag football; and the Illini Grove with tennis courts, sand volleyball, a basketball court, and picnic facilities.