Will doing a lot of sports cause symptoms of pleurisy?

No, and yes.: No, because true pleurisy is an inflammation of the two linings surrounding the lungs (see prior) and sports should't cause this unless, perhaps, there is blunt trauma to the chest wall. However, the symptoms of pleurisy, pain on breathing, could be caused by trauma or contusion of the chest wall or lung. Interestingly, a gas bubble caught under the diaphragm may cause pleuritic symptoms.

No: An athlete does not get pleurisy from working out or engaging in high level activity. You get it as part of an infection or response to incidental trauma. Some sports have a higher rate of incidental trauma than others, but the same injury occurs in couch potatoes.

No: No, not typically. Pleurisy is an inflammatory condition of the pleura, which is the lining of the lung.