Sports, Definition, History and list of Sports in World

Sports

Sports are physical competitions undertaken for their objectives and difficulties. All cultures, past and present, have sports, albeit each defines sports differently. Definitions that make clear how sports relate to play, games, and contests are the most helpful. “Play is purposeless activity, for its own sake, the opposite of work,” German scholar Carl Diem once stated. People play because they want to, and they work because they have to. Play has its own objectives because it is autotelic. It is freely given and not forced. When parents or teachers force recalcitrant kids to play football (soccer), they aren’t really participating in a sport. If professional athletes are motivated solely by money, then neither are they. In Practically speaking, reasons in the actual world are usually ambiguous and difficult to ascertain. Nonetheless, a clear definition is necessary before making any practical decisions regarding what constitutes play and what does not.

History

The exact origins of sports are unknown. Certainly, children have always incorporated sports in their play, since it is hard to picture a time when they did not run races or wrestle. However, one can only hypothesize about the emergence of sports as autotelic physical contests for adults. Prehistoric art shows hunters, but it’s unclear if they followed their prey with the carefree abandon of sportsmen or with a sense of terrible necessity. But no doubt hunting eventually turned into an end in and of itself, at least for aristocracy and nobility, based on the abundant literary and iconographic evidence of all ancient civilizations. Additionally, archeological data suggests that ball games were popular among prehistoric peoples as distinct as the Chinese and the Aztecs.

African traditional sports

It is improbable that the traditional sports of the region were much changed by the Islamic invasion of North Africa in the 7th century. Archery tournaments remained displays of quick skill as long as battles were waged with bows and arrows. Geography required that men race camels in addition to horses, and the prophet Muhammad expressly approved horse races. On horseback, hunters also had their joys.

Ta kurt om el mahal, or “the ball of the pilgrim’s mother,” was one of the various sports played in North Africa. It was a Berber bat-and-ball match with a striking baseball-like layout. The more popular game of koura was comparable to soccer (football).

The cultural diversity of black Africans was significantly higher than that of the northern littoral Arab peoples. Ball While l games were uncommon, many forms of wrestling were commonplace. The forms and purposes of wrestling differed throughout tribes. The main source of male status and reputation for the Nuba people of southern Sudan was ritual fights, for which men’s bodies were lavishly painted and meticulously trained. Among the groups who held female contests were the Tutsi and Hutu peoples of Rwanda. Wrestling contests were a means for the many populations of sub-Saharan Africa to commemorate or encourage the earth’s and human fertility. For example, during the three months of the rainy season in southern Nigeria, Igbo tribesmen engaged in wrestling matches every eighth day.

Asian traditional sports

Asian traditional sports are as old as the highly developed civilizations of which they are a part. Contests were never as easy as they appeared. From the Islamic Middle East to China and Japan, wrestlers mostly but not just men embodied and carried out the values of their civilizations. They traveled over the Indian subcontinent. One example of how sport was used in a religious setting was when fifty-strong Turks competed in wrestling in Istanbul in 1582 to commemorate the circumcision of Murad III’s son. Indian wrestlers dedicate themselves to the pursuit of a holy life when they sign up for an akhara or gymnasium. They perform knee bends and push-ups while reciting mantras, as they are devoted Hindus. In their conflict with “pollution,” they rigorously regulate their breathing, eating, sleeping patterns, intercourse, and even urinating and defecating.

Archers fought for distance in Turkey, where the composite (wood plus horn) bow was a powerful tool. The record was set in 1798 at Okmeydanı, often known as “Arrow Field,” in Istanbul when Selim III’s arrow shot over 2,900 feet (884 meters).

• Which sports are there different varieties of?
  The many sports categories are as follows:
• Team sports,
• Partner sports,
• Individual sports,
• Extreme sports

List of English sports

• Tennis basketball
• Baseball
• Golf runner
• Volleyball
• Ice skating,
• roller skating,
• Table tennis,
• Badminton,
• Swimming,
• Boxing,
• Skiing
• Rugby cricket
• Pool darts
• Athletics football
• Ice hockey
• karate
• Surfing
• Snowboarding
• Skateboarding
• Snowboarding cycling
• Archery
• Angling
• Gymnasts
• Skating figures
• Climbing rocks
• Sumo wrestling
• Fencing in taekwondo
• Jet skiing and water skiing
• Lifting weights
• Diving underwater judo
• Surfing the wind
• kickboxing
• Skydiving
• Hang gliding
• Jumping from a bungee
• Lacrosse
• Polo wrestling
• Squash rowing,
• Handball, 
• Sailing
• kiteboarding
• Paddleboarding,
• Triathlon,
• Ultimate frisbee
• Trekking
• Kayaking
• Canoeing
• Skiing in the cross-country
• Mixed martial arts (MMA)
• Horse paragliding (show jumping, dressage, events)
• Coordinated Snowmobiling
• Swimming
• Biathlon curling
• Racquetball
• Parkour
• Lacrosse capoeira
• Snooker
• Aerobics
• Bobsleighing
• Triathlon for motocross
• Decathlon Kendo Orienteering
• Swift skating

Olympic Sports that Are Official (Tokyo 2020)

• All of the official one-minute sports videos are available to watch here. In one minute, each Olympic sport is explained in these videos.

• Basketball 3×3 Archery
• Creative Gymnastics
• Swimming in Art Forms
• Sports
• Softball/Baseball/Badminton
• Basketball
• Beach Volleyball
• Boxing
• Canoe Slalom
• Sprint of Canoes
• BMX Freestyle cycling
• BMX Racing Cycling
• Riding a mountain bike
• Road Cycling
• Cycling Track Diving
• The Equatorial Fencing
• Soccer
• Handball in golf
• Hockey
• Karate Judo Marathon Modern Pentathlon Swimming
• Gymnastics with rhythm
• Rowing Rugby
• Shooting while sailing
• Sport Climbing Surfing Skateboarding
• Swimming
• Taekwondo, Table Tennis, and Tennis
• Gymnastics on a Trampoline
• Triathlon
• Volleyball
• Polo d’Aquece
• Lifting weights and wrestling