Career success today requires excellence, activity, creativity, depth of knowledge and skills, both subject-professional and specific, related to the peculiarities of professional activity, from the specialist in physical education and sport. The modern university graduate should be able to organize and carry out activities in sports and recreation targeted at different groups. These activities, part of the educational standards, are designated as recreational. Recreational activities aimed at satisfying recreational needs, restoration and development of physical and mental abilities, intelligence, and self-improvement is characterized not only by the result, but also by the process. Recreational activities are an integral part of the professional in the field of physical culture. To perform their duties specialists in physical culture and sport must have certain skills, knowledge, personal qualities and moral values, most of which they acquire while training for their future careers. In other words, experts in the field of physical education and sports should have a certain level of competence, which will allow them to carry out their activities. The competence-based approach in the global educational practice is the main one. It emphasizes the importance of development of the ability to act in different situations, including random. To separate the general and individual we must distinguish two commonly used concepts of "competence" and "competency". Competence includes a set of interrelated skills ( knowledge, skills, lifestyle) defined with respect to a certain range of objects and processes, and required for qualified productive activities in relation to them. Competency is possession of a competence, including one's personal attitude to it, and the object of activity. Selection and structuring of the content of the educational material, development of software and methodological support for the training of future professionals in the field of physical culture and sports to solve the problems of recreational activities and the formation of special professional competencies requires the development of their essential components, describing the skills necessary to deal with professional issues of recreational activities. In the competence model of recreational activities of specialists in physical education and sports, we chose five profiles of competencies - gnostic, communicative, design, planning, organizing. Each profile has its essential characteristics: knowledge, skills that the future specialist in physical education and sport is to master. The progressive development of skills in the learning process should be carried out in several stages. We distinguish four stages of forming a recreational competence of future bachelors in physical education. Thus, the content of each competency of recreational activities can influence the pedagogical process filling it with concrete content appropriate for the competency, make use of approaches, methods and tools to achieve a guaranteed result - formation of recreational competence of future specialists in physical education and sports.