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Revision as of 06:12, 24 June 2023
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Parent Topics
Competition: The activity or condition of competing against others. Ecologically, the interaction between species or organisms which share a limited environmental resource. [e]
Physical activity: Any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that requires energy expenditure. [e]
Related Topics
- Entertainment: Activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time. [e]
- Exercise: Regular physical activity that is usually done with the intention of improving or maintaining physical fitness or health. [e]
- Leisure: A period of time spent out of work and essential domestic activity. [e]
- Recreation: Activities intended to take place during leisure time, for pleasure or amusement, including sports, hobbies or games, especially when not done as part of serious competition or for exercise. [e]
Subtopics
- Air sports: Generic term for various types of aeronautical competition. [e]
- Aquatics: A term for water sports taking place in the water, subdivided into five distinct branches: swimming, water polo, diving, open water swimming, and synchronised swimming. [e]
- Athletic sports: Broadly, those sports contested by individuals which primarily rely on human physical endeavour, demanding the qualities of stamina, fitness, and skill. Generally known for their inclusion in the Olympic Games, they include track and field, gymnastics, trampolining, and weightlifting. [e]
- Club-ball sports: Those sports which are held to have evolved from a generic activity that has loosely been termed "club-ball". It is essentially any activity in which a ball is struck by a bat, club, racquet, or stick. The main examples are cricket, croquet, cue sports, baseball, golf, the hockey group, and tennis. [e]
- Combat sports: Those sports which involve combat between the contestants such as boxing, fencing, judo, karate and wrestling. [e]
- Cycling: The sport, recreational activity and means of transportation of riding a bicycle. [e]
- Equestrianism: Sports in which human competitors are on horseback including horse racing, polo, show jumping, and three-day eventing. [e]
- Football: Add brief definition or description
- Motorsports: A generic term used to describe competitive racing of engine-powered land vehicles. [e]
- Multi-sport events: A gathering of athletes in one place over a period of one to several days for the purpose of entering into competition. [e]
- Racquet sports: Any sport such as tennis or badminton in which contestants use a racquet to hit the ball. [e]
- Surface water sports: Add brief definition or description
- Table sports: All sports played on a table including chess, cue sports, and table tennis. [e]
- Target sports: Those sports in which the primary objective is to hit a specific target. Examples are archery, basketball, bowls, curling, darts, golf, netball, and shooting. [e]
- Winter sports: Generic term for a wide range of sporting events that are associated with snow and ice. They form the agenda for the Winter Olympics every four years and include various ice skating, skiing, and sledging competitions. [e]