Today’s Wednesday, February 04, 2015
“Sport”
Sport (or sports) is all forms of usually
competitive physical activity which, through casual or organized participation,
aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing
entertainment to participants, and in some cases, spectators. Hundreds of
sports exist, from those requiring only two participants, through to those with
hundreds of simultaneous participants, either in teams or competing as
individuals.
Sport is generally recognized as activities
which are based in physical athleticism or physical dexterity, with the largest
major competitions such as the Olympic Games admitting only sports meeting this
definition, and other organizations such as the Council of Europe using
definitions precluding activities without a physical element from classification
as sports. However, a number of competitive, but non-physical, activities claim
recognition as mind sports. The International Olympic Committee (through ARISF)
recognizes both chess and bridge as bona fide sports, and Sport Accord, the
international sports federation association, recognizes five non-physical
sports, although limits the amount of mind games which can be admitted as
sports.
Sports are 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, or by the determination of judges
who are scoring elements of the sporting performance, including objective or
subjective measures such as technical performance or artistic impression.
In organized sport, records of performance
are often kept, and for popular sports, this information may be widely
announced or reported in sport news. In addition, sport is a major source of
entertainment for non-participants, with spectator sport drawing large crowds
to venues, and reaching wider audiences through broadcasting.
According to A.T. Kearney, a consultancy,
the global sporting industry is worth up to $620 billion as of 2013.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport