This paper aimed to investigate the transformational leadership behavior of high school students according to leisure preferences and participation type. 226 high school students attending Bursa Atatürk High School participated in the study voluntarily. In the study, to collect data transformational and transactional leadership scale developed by Basoglu (2013a) was revised and used. The construct validity of the scale assessed by confirmatory & explanatory factor analyzes. To investigate the differences between the participants' transformational leadership behavior Kruskal Wallis and Mann Whitney U nonparametric tests used. As a result, this study showed that students who chose physical activities and who actively involved in leisure activities showed more transformational leadership than the other students.