"Sport pertains to any form of physical activity or game, often competitive and organized, that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators."
Works that describe various sports, athletes, and events, their history and rules.
Sports Rules and Regulations: This involves learning the basic rules and regulations of different sports, including football, basketball, baseball, tennis, volleyball, and others.
History of Sports: This involves understanding the origin and evolution of sports, including the different sporting activities that have been popular in different cultures over the years.
Sports Psychology: This involves learning about the psychological factors that influence sports performance, including motivation, confidence, and mental toughness.
Sports Physiology: This involves understanding the physiological factors that influence sports performance, including muscle structure, oxygen consumption, and biomechanics.
Injuries and Prevention: This involves learning about common sports injuries, including how to prevent their occurrence and how to manage them when they do occur.
Sports Nutrition: This involves understanding the importance of proper nutrition in sports performance, including the role of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats in providing energy and building muscle.
Sports Conditioning: This involves learning about the different fitness and conditioning programs that help athletes build strength, endurance, and speed.
Sports Management: This involves understanding the business aspects of sports, including marketing, sponsorship, and event management.
Sports Journalism: This involves learning about the role of journalists in covering sports events, including the importance of accurate reporting and ethical standards.
Sports Technology: This involves understanding the use of technology in sports, including performance tracking, data analysis, and virtual reality training programs.
Basketball: A game consisting of two teams of five players, where the objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop that is 10 feet high.
Football: A team sport played with an oval-shaped ball, where players score points by carrying or throwing the ball over the opponents' end zone.
Soccer: A game in which two teams attempt to score goals by kicking a ball into the opposing team's goal.
Baseball: A team sport played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players. The objective is to score runs by hitting the ball and running around the bases.
Volleyball: A team sport where two teams hit a ball back and forth over a net with the objective of making the ball touch the ground on the opponent's side.
Tennis: A game in which players use rackets to hit a ball over a net and into the opponent's court.
Hockey: A team game where players use sticks to hit a small disk into the opposing team's goal.
Golf: A game in which players use clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Swimming: Competitive sport and recreational activity in which participants swim across a pool, lake, or ocean.
Boxing: A combat sport where two fighters engage in a contest of strength, speed, and endurance with the aim of knocking out their opponent.
Wrestling: A combat sport involving grappling techniques, where wrestlers try to pin their opponent's shoulders to the ground.
Judo: A martial art and Olympic sport based on throwing and grappling techniques.
Taekwondo: A type of martial art that focuses on high kicks, strikes, and punches.
Karate: A martial art involving striking and kicking techniques, often seen in movies.
Archery: A sport in which participants shoot arrows at a target for points.
Gymnastics: A sport involving physical strength, flexibility, and agility, where participants perform routines on various apparatuses.
Track and Field: Sports that include running, jumping, and throwing disciplines, including the 100m sprint, long jump, and javelin throw.
Cycling: A competitive sport and recreational activity in which participants ride bicycles over long distances or at high speed.
Martial Arts: A group of sports comprising a variety of combat systems and techniques, including Judo, Taekwondo, Karate, and Boxing.
Skiing: A winter sport where participants slide on either straight or curved sliding boards called skis over snow.
Snowboarding: A winter sport, which involves descending a snow-covered slope on a single board called a snowboard.
Surfing: A sport wherein participants ride waves while standing on a board.
Sailing: A sport where participants navigate or race sailing boats on water.
Cricket: A team sport played between two teams with a bat and ball. Each team takes turn batting and fielding.
Rugby: A team sport played with a ball, in which players score points by carrying or passing the ball over the opposition's try-line.
Badminton: A racquet sport played with a shuttlecock, where two or four players hit the shuttlecock over a net.
Table Tennis: A sport that involves hitting a lightweight ball back and forth across a table using small bats.
Polo: A sport played on horseback, in which two teams compete to score goals by striking a ball with their mallets.
"Some sports allow a 'tie' or 'draw', in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure one winner and one loser."
"A number of contests may be arranged in a tournament producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regular sports season, followed in some cases by playoffs."
"The International Olympic Committee (through ARISF) recognises both chess and bridge as bona fide sports, and SportAccord, the international sports federation association, recognises five non-physical sports: bridge, chess, draughts (checkers), Go and xiangqi."
"Sport is usually governed by a set of rules or customs, which serve to ensure fair competition, and allow consistent adjudication of the winner."
"Winning can be determined by physical events such as scoring goals or crossing a line first. It can also be determined by judges who are scoring elements of the sporting performance, including objective or subjective measures such as technical performance or artistic impression."
"Records of performance are often kept, and for popular sports, this information may be widely announced or reported in sport news."
"According to A.T. Kearney, a consultancy, the global sporting industry is worth up to $620 billion as of 2013."
"The world's most accessible and practiced sport is running."
"Association football is the most popular spectator sport."
"Some sports allow a 'tie' or 'draw', in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure one winner and one loser."
"It aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators."
"Other organizations, such as the Council of Europe, preclude activities without a physical element from classification as sports."
"Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regular sports season, followed in some cases by playoffs."
"Others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure one winner and one loser."
"Sport betting is in some cases severely regulated, and in some cases is central to the sport."
"Spectator sport drawing large crowds to sport venues."
"The International Olympic Committee (through ARISF) recognises both chess and bridge as bona fide sports."
"Sport is generally recognised as a system of activities based on physical athleticism or physical dexterity."
"SportAccord, the international sports federation association, recognises five non-physical sports: bridge, chess, draughts (checkers), Go and xiangqi."