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Whenever I'm enrolled in a PE course that involves anything that resembles running (dance, fencing, badminton) my knees feel swollen and unwilling to bend and start aching spontaneously many times a day. A few weeks after the course is over they go back to normal. Totally unconvinced that exercise is beneficial or even neutral at least for my particular joints.
Maybe the causality goes the other way and people with crappy joints avoid heavy labor and athletics.
All the sports you mention are high-impact and high-stress for the knees. If you're not trained or adapted for these, then yes, you'll be hurt from it.
If you increased your knee joint strength in a sensible and progressive manner (ie doing full squats with very light weight for three sets of five repetitions, and slowly increasing the weight) then your knees would become stronger, and those activities would be less stressful.