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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 [r]: Activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time. [e]
- Exercise [r]: Regular physical activity that is usually done with the intention of improving or maintaining physical fitness or health. [e]
- Leisure [r]: A period of time spent out of work and essential domestic activity. [e]
- Recreation [r]: 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
- Aquatics [r]: 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 [r]: 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 [r]: 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 [r]: Those sports which involve combat between the contestants such as boxing, fencing, judo, karate and wrestling. [e]
- Equestrian sports [r]: REDIRECT Equestrianism/Definition [e]
- Football [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Machine sports [r]: Any sport in which the key equipment is a machine such as an aeroplane, bicycle, motor bike or motor car. The sports include cycling, Formula One, MotoGP, and NASCAR. [e]
- Multi-sport events [r]: 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 [r]: Any sport such as tennis or badminton in which contestants use a racquet to hit the ball. [e]
- Skating [r]: A collection of sports that are broadly sub-divided into ice skating and roller skating. [e]
- Skiing [r]: Various means of travelling over snow with the aid of skis which are bound to the foot using a special boot; in sporting terms the main classifications are alpine skiing and Nordic skiing. [e]
- Sledging [r]: A generic term for winter sports using sleds, sledges or sleighs. [e]
- Surface water sports [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Table sports [r]: All sports played on a table including chess, cue sports, and table tennis. [e]
- Target sports [r]: 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]