Bicycling & Motor-Scootering -- The largest outfitter for bikes and motor scooters is Louis Mas, 5 rue Josef-Quaranta (tel. 04-94-97-00-60). You'll be required to leave a deposit of 153€ to 229€, payable with a major credit card, plus 8€ to 12€ per hour for a bike and 30€ to 45€ per hour for a motor scooter, depending on its size.

Boating -- The highly recommended Suncap Company, 15 quai de Suffren (tel. 04-94-97-11-23), rents boats from 5.5 to 12m (18-40 ft.) long. The smallest can be rented to qualified sailors without a captain, but the larger ones come with a captain at the helm. Prices begin at 475€ per day.

Golf -- The nearest golf course, at the edge of Ste-Maxime, across the bay, is the Golf Club de Beauvallon, boulevard des Collines (tel. 04-94-96-16-98), a popular 18-hole course.

Sprawling over a rocky, vertiginous landscape that requires a golf cart and a lot of exertion is the Don Harradine-designed Golf de Ste-Maxime-Plaza, route du Débarquement, Ste-Maxime (tel. 04-94-55-02-02). Built in 1991 with the four-star Plaza de Ste-Maxime, it welcomes nonguests; phone to reserve tee times. Greens fees at both golf courses range from 50€ to 65€ for 18 holes per person, depending on the season, but if your tee-off begins three hours or less before sunset, you'll pay discounted rates of between 35€ and 45€ per person for 18 holes, depending on the season. Rental of an electric golf cart, suitable for two passengers, costs around 24€ for 18 holes, regardless of the season.

Scuba Diving -- A team of dive enthusiasts who are ready, willing, and able to show you the azure-colored depths off the coast of St-Tropez operate from the Octopussy I and II. Both are aluminum-sided, yellow-painted dive boats built in the 1990s. They're based year-round in St-Tropez's Nouveau Port, although the outfit's corporate headquarters lie on the outskirts of town, at the address noted below. Experienced divers pay from 30€ to 44€ for a one-tank "exploration" dive, depending on how much of their own equipment they use, and novices are charged 45€ for a baptême that includes one-on-one supervision and a descent to a depth of around 5m (15 ft.). Except for people who sign up for the baptême, where supervision for neophyte divers is enhanced and where you'll be expected to show strong swimming skills in advance, you have to have a license to participate in any of the conventional dives. For reservations and information, call or write Les Octopussys, quartier de Bertaud, Gassin, 83900 St-Tropez (tel. 04-94-56-53-10; fax 04-94-56-46-59). And for a look at the actual boats, head down to the Nouveau Port, where, whenever they're not out on the open sea, they're usually moored to the wharves.

Tennis -- Anyone who phones in advance can use the eight courts (both artificial grass and "Quick," a form of concrete) at the Tennis-Club de St-Tropez, route des Plages, in St-Claude (tel. 04-94-97-80-76), about a kilometer from the resort's center. Open year-round, the courts rent for 15€ per hour from 10am to 5pm, and 20€ per hour after 5pm.