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The level of motor skills is an important indicator of optimal child's growth and development. The proficiency of gross motor skills enables activities and games with other children and leads to a development of social competencies. The shortcommings in this area can cause gradual decrease of child's activity in the school group, which negativelly effects child's adaptive behavior. The aim of the pilot study was to analyse the relationship between the level of motor skills and the ability to adapt to a given social group - school class. The research group obtained 110 pupils from primary school aged 9 - 11. The data about adaptive behavior was collected by Piers-Harris children's self-concept scale 2 (Piers and Herzberg, 2009). The level of motor skills was monitored by TGMD-2 test (Ulrich, 2000). The research was authorized by Ethical commitee of Pedagogical faculty in Olomouc and legal representatives of children confirmed agreement of participation in the research. It is necessary to examine this area, because the level of motor skills (locomotive and manipulative) could be one of the predictors of child's adaptive behavior. The aimed development of motor skills could lead to better adaptation on pro-social behavior also in older age categories. The data was collected within the project IGA_PdF_2017_002.