While club sports may cease during this time, the state's sporting community have shared how they spend the end of the year.

The answer: spending time with family was foremost in many a sportsperson's response.

Many will take the chance to spend much-needed time with family, including Launceston cricket sensation Sasha Moloney.

"I'm not often able to get home to Launnie and see my family so Christmas means we can take the day off and go home and see my family and be with them," she said.

For East Launceston Bowls Club presiden Sam Springer, Christmas will be spent spoiling his two young children.

"My daughter Charlotte who's nine months old - it's her first Christmas so I'll be primarily spending as much time as I can with the kids and lots of presents," he said.

Young Launceston basketball talent Lauren Wise has returned for the holidays after spending much of the year at the Australia Institute of Sport.

"I haven't seen my family in seven months so we just decided to stay at home and spend quality time together and enjoy a calm, peaceful Christmas," she said.

Launceston Gorillas Gridiron Club acting head coach Brett Wheldon's definition of family spanned beyond blood-ties.

"For me, it's about spending time with not just my family, but my Gorillas family as well," he said.

With Tasmania's borders largely open to the rest of the nation, Trevallyn Cricket Club captain James Whiteley said the holidays served as a chance for interstate loved ones to come home.

"A lot of young people who have moved away come back this time of the year so you get to see them," he said.

"Whether you're with your family or watching the Boxing Day Test, it's an exceptional time of year and I think that's been exacerbated by COVID."

As for Greater Northern Raiders women's captain Caitlyn Webster, this will be her first Christmas working in her role as a theatre nurse at the Launceston General Hospital.

"I'll be working Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day," she said.

"I'll be able to have lunch with the family but then I'll have to go to work ... it's probably a good time for me to do it I suppose, we often venture to Victoria - we're not too keen on that this year."

For cricketers, there was only one true answer of the right way to spend the holidays: watching Test cricket, most notably the Boxing Day Test.

"Cricket on the telly has always been a big part of my family's summer so that'll be a common thing over the next few weeks but just relaxing," Westbury Cricket Club captain Dan Murfet said.

For Longford Cricket Club captain Jackson Blair, the Test is held in higher esteem than the day before it.

"The Boxing Day Test is a massive one for me, that's normally my Christmas Day," he said.

"Normally, we'd go over for the Test but obviously this year we can't really, this year we'll just be getting the boys together and have a big day watching the match."

Meanwhile, at Trevallyn, the club will celebrate the Test with a Boxing Day buffett.

"The Boxing Day Test is alway an event for Trevallyn - it's a club tradition that we all go to the president's house on Boxing Day," Whiteley said.

"He's one of the best chefs in Tasmania so it's fantastic ... mate it's a sight to behold."

As well as watching cricket, plenty of families will be breaking out the backyard wickets and stumps for a bit of family competition at home or take their game to an ocean view in beach cricket.

"Obviously watching the Boxing Day Test is a tradition for us as a family and we'll be having some good beach time as well," Hadspen Cricket Club's Liam Reynolds said.

"There will be some beach cricket - my young fellas are just starting to get into cricket so there'll be plenty of backyard and beach cricket as well."

For the Moloney household, however, backyard cricket has been outlawed during the festive season.

"Mum won't allow it anymore, it gets too firery - we've had many a broken window in the past so we're not allowed to play backyard cricket at home," she said.