PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a spinning reel for fishing which can prevent stay of foreign matters in a rotor, enables performing of line release operation, without receiving the effect of air resistance, and which can be can be made light-weight.SOLUTION: This spinning reel 10 in which the rotor 60 is rotated via a handle 32 to wind up a line on a spool 50, has a support portion 80a formed for rotatably supporting a hollow riving shaft 22 driven with a driving mechanism 24, in a front portion 80 projecting forward from bearings 36a, 36b supporting the handle 32, in the reel body 12 a dent portion 62 for receiving the front portion 80 made to open backward in the rotor 60 a driving portion 68 integrally connected to the hollow driving shaft 22 disposed in the dent portion 62 the front portion 80 of the reel body 12 sealed with a seal member 90 disposed between the periphery of the driving portion 68 and the support portion 80a and penetrated holes 55, 65 formed in the front wall portions 54, 66 of the spool 50 and the rotor 60.COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT【課題】ロータ内の異物の滞留を防止すると共に、空気抵抗の影響を受けることなく釣糸放出操作を行うことができる軽量化が可能な魚釣用スピニングリールを提供すること。【解決手段】ハンドル32を介してロータ60を回転し、スプール50に釣糸を巻回する魚釣用スピニングリール10であって、リール本体12は、ハンドル32を支える軸受36a,36bの前方に突出する前部80に、駆動機構24で駆動される中空駆動軸22を回転自在に支える支持部80aを形成し、ロータ60は、この前部80を受入れる凹部62を後方に向けて開口させ、この凹部62内に、中空駆動軸22に一体的に連結される駆動部68を配置し、この駆動部68の周囲と支持部80aとの間に配置したシール部材90により、リール本体12の前部80内を密封し、スプール50とロータ60との前壁部54,66に貫通孔55,65を形成した魚釣用スピニングリール。【選択図】 図2