Phy Ed was an easy grade. Show up and run around for 45 minutes and get an A, no home work. Ours was an easy class to ditch every now and then because if you went to evening open swim for an hour it counted towards making up 1 gym class missed.
It wasn’t required our senior year but I took it as an elective because it was an easy A. Senior gym was a blast. We played golf, tennis, and bowling. By senior year most of us were old enough to drink so we were hoisting beers at the bowling alley while there on official class time. Viva gym class! Of course, it was the 1970’s, YMMV.
The worst thing about Phy Ed class were the pantywaists who were whining about how much they hated gym class.