games and sports as mans cultural heritage
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The term culture is vast term which deals with all the complexities of the civilisation starting from the very beginning with its basic aspects related to tradition and religion. Culture represents the influence of society, community religion etc. Culture shows the image of nation. Today we will discuss about Games and sports as Man’s Cultural Heritage.
Games and sports are as old as our civilisation. These are the physical activities, which long ago our ancestors have adopted for their existence. These include running, fishing, fighting and jumping etc. These activities were used to fulfill their basic needs slowly with change in time, most of these physical activities were modified and were used for playing and recreation. Most of the activities like running, fighting, etc were modified into games and sports like athletics, wrestling etc. We can quote, number of examples to show that a number of games have been passed to us by our ancestors eg killing of animals by stone/arrow