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THE USE of the word 'sport' has changed historically, but these days it is often felt that the need for physical prowess differentiates a sport from a game. Chess, being relatively cerebral in comparison with rugby, would be
regarded as a game; fishing, being relatively passive, might be better classed as a recreation. Games and sports are both rule-bound competitive activities in which efficient means of victory are sacrificed for less efficient means (e.g., not being able to move a knight diagonally in chess, not running in a walking race, not being offside in football). But if physical prowess, rule-boundedness and competition are the key characteristics of a sport, why isn't ballroom dancing regarded as one? And if the Olympics are games, what are all those sports doing in them? Such problems result in others arguing that because 'sport' seems to cover everything from ice-dance to boxing, it cannot be reduced to any essential essences which make it a definable category or group of activities. So the answer is probably that sports and games are what you and various institutions (usually the media) want them to be.
regarded as a game; fishing, being relatively passive, might be better classed as a recreation. Games and sports are both rule-bound competitive activities in which efficient means of victory are sacrificed for less efficient means (e.g., not being able to move a knight diagonally in chess, not running in a walking race, not being offside in football). But if physical prowess, rule-boundedness and competition are the key characteristics of a sport, why isn't ballroom dancing regarded as one? And if the Olympics are games, what are all those sports doing in them? Such problems result in others arguing that because 'sport' seems to cover everything from ice-dance to boxing, it cannot be reduced to any essential essences which make it a definable category or group of activities. So the answer is probably that sports and games are what you and various institutions (usually the media) want them to be.
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