Sports- A teaching for Life.

1. SPORTS
Ms. Ambreen
Department of health professional technologies
Faculty of Allied Health Sciences
University of Lahore

3. Sports
■ Sport (British English) or sports (American English)
includes all forms of competitive physical
activity or games, through casual or organized
participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical
ability and skills while providing enjoyment to
participants, and in some cases, entertainment for
spectators.

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■ The word "Sport" comes from the Old
French desport meaning "leisure", with the
oldest definition in English from around 1300
being "anything humans find amusing or
entertaining“.

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■ Sports are usually governed by a set
of rules or customs, which serve to ensure fair
competition, and allow consistent adjudication of
the winner.

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■ Winning can be determined by physical events
such as scoring goals or crossing a line first.

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■ 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.

8. Definition:
■ Sport Accord uses the following criteria, determining
that a sport should:
– Have an element of competition
– Be in no way harmful to any living creature
– Not rely on equipment provided by a single
supplier (excluding proprietary games such
as arena football)
– Not rely on any "luck" element specifically
designed into the sport.

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■ Disabled sports also adaptive sports or parasports,
are sports played by persons with a disability,
including physical and intellectual disabilities.

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■ As many of these based on existing sports
modified to meet the needs of persons with a
disability, they are sometimes referred to
as adapted sports.

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■ However, not all disabled sports are adapted;
several sports that have been specifically created
for persons with a disability have no equivalent
in able-bodied sports.

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