Sports

A sport can be described as a physical strength measurement (e.g., swimming), physical (e.g. football) game or mind game (e.g. chess) that properly can be played in a season or recreational.



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[hide] *1 Characteristics  ==Characteristics[ Edit] == Although everyone ' knows ' what is meant with sports, it is difficult to give a definition. The term evolves continually experience new activities that one as sports to bring under this heading. Sports are usually activities based on physical movement using characteristics as strength, speed, agility and ability to think. Here are some features:
 * 2 History
 * 3 Etymology
 * 4 Topical
 * 5 see also

==History[ Edit] ==
 * A sport has a fixed rule set that came with all players should be known. These can vary over time and place. Tournaments can set their own additional rules, but there is a basic set of agreed and accepted rules.
 * A sport has a competition aspect. This can be in a direct confrontation with other players, or in the sense of establishing a score.
 * A sport is practiced for the pleasure of the participants and/or of the spectators; or because of the prestige of a country, city, club and so on.
 * A sport consists of a physical or mental activity, carried out individually or in a team, with or without opponents to win (for example football), or to achieve a goal (for example, mountain climbing), or for health reasons (e.g., swimming).
 * The primary purpose of a League is to win, and not according to the rules for aesthetic, artistic or financial reasons.
 * See for the history of the individual sports article about the sport.

The phenomenon of sport is already known from classical antiquity, the Greeks already organized the Olympic Games. ==Etymologie[ Edit] == The word sport is derived from the Latin dis-[to different sides, range] + portare portari [bring, transmit], [to bring]. disportus, disporta, disportatio [decline, pleasure, sport], disportum [recreation, recreation room in a monastery]. [1] ==Topical<span class="mw-editsection" len="319" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For current information, see: Calendar 2014 . ==See also<span class="mw-editsection" len="319" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * List of sports
 * Sports from A to Z
 * Sports in ancient Greece
 * List of sports years
 * Competitions
 * Olympic Games
 * Pan American Games
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