A Study of the Defining of Sports and its Standard

A Study of the Defining Sport and its Standard

Like other institutions, sport, as it grows, asserts its identity and defines its own limits. The definition of sport slowly emerges. It gets elaborated in the same time that sport differentiates itself from other activities, and that people who do sport start having competitive relationships, to set the criteria of excellence, and manage sports matters. As a result, diverging opinions on the definition of sport appear. What are the stakes of a definition of sport? Sport being such a pragmatic domain, couldn"t we do without that formal exercise? To define implies both to include and exclude. Defining sport is a practical issue. Questions appear when, for example, one wants to set limits and categories. What types of associations are a matter of a sports service"s competence, or can lay claim to subsidies, etc. That question appears when it deals with organizing physical activities that can give pupils a certain co-operation and competition spirit. At last, a review of the specialized literature shows that no scholarly definition has not clearly stood out yet, and that the limits of sport vary noticeably form one country to the next, so that we do not have a pertinent, internationally-recognised definition at our disposal.

Like other institutions, sport, as it grows, asserts its identity and defines its own limits. The definition of sport slowly emerges. It gets elaborated in the same time that sport differentiates itself from other activities, and that people who do sport start having competitive relationships, to set the criteria of excellence, and manage sports matters. As a result, diverging opinions on the definition of sport appear. What are the stakes of a definition of sport? Sport being such a pragmatic domain, couldn"t we do without that formal exercise? To define implies both to include and exclude. Defining sport is a practical issue. Questions appear when, for example, one wants to set limits and categories. What types of associations are a matter of a sports service"s competence, or can lay claim to subsidies, etc. That question appears when it deals with organizing physical activities that can give pupils a certain co-operation and competition spirit. At last, a review of the specialized literature shows that no scholarly definition has not clearly stood out yet, and that the limits of sport vary noticeably form one country to the next, so that we do not have a pertinent, internationally-recognised definition at our disposal.