Sports are a great way to keep your mind healthy and your body strong. Regular exercise and playing sports helps strengthen the heart, increase life expectancy, reduces blood pressure and cholesterol levels, and lowers the sugar level in the blood.
A lot of people think that sports are a distraction from schoolwork, but they actually help develop skills that you can use in the classroom. For example, teamwork is a key part of a sport and it also develops determination and goal-setting.
The Definition of Sport
Sport is an activity involving physical exertion and skill that is competitively or socially participated in. There are many different forms of sport, and the precise definition of what makes an activity a “sport” varies between sources.
Philosophical theories of sport vary in their approach to defining and understanding sport, which reflects the different views on its nature. Descriptive theories attempt to describe the central concepts of sport, while normative theories try to establish a set of principles that define or shape sports.
Externalist theories of sport, influenced by Marxism and structuralism, take the nature of sport to be determined by principles from other practices or larger social phenomena. Internalist theories, on the other hand, take sport to be a uniquely human phenomenon that can be understood in terms of its own intrinsic values.
Sports have been practiced throughout human history as amusement, religious worship, political stability and a means of demonstrating excellence. The pursuit of excellence has been associated with the ideals of mutualism, and has a deep cultural significance that goes beyond a purely sporting context.