sport

Also known as sports

thumb|upright=1.35|right|Sport in childhood. [[Association football, shown above, is a team sport which also provides opportunities to nurture physical fitness and social interaction skills.]] thumb|The 2005 London Marathon: running races, in their various specialties, represent the oldest and most traditional form of sport.

OverviewAI-generated

Sport is a subclass of physical activity and an instance of an academic discipline. It is practiced by athletes and utilizes sports equipment, pitches, sports fields, and sports venues. The activity is associated with the characteristics of type of sport and goal, and serves the uses of physical fitness and pleasure. It is distinct from sports disciplines, types of sport, and sports competitions.

The subject is studied by sociology of sport and sports science. It is described by the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary. The topic has a main Wikimedia portal, a main category, and a Commons category and gallery. It is maintained by WikiProject Sports and appears on focus lists for Wikipedia articles. The subject has social media followers and uses hashtags including sport, спорт, and sports. It is referenced by 5,123 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 25 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, PubMed, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Research

542,355 papers

Current trends in sport injury prevention.ReviewBest practice & research. Clinical rheumatology · 2019Emery CA, Pasanen KDOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2019.02.009
Acute sport-related knee injuries.ReviewAustralian journal of general practice · 2023Wall C, Byrnes J, Botha L et al.DOI: 10.31128/AJGP-04-23-6785
2022 Bern Consensus Statement on Shoulder Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Return to Sport for Athletes at All Participation Levels.The Journal of orthopaedic and sports physical therapy · 2022Schwank A, Blazey P, Asker M et al.DOI: 10.2519/jospt.2022.10952
The challenge of the sporting shoulder: From injury prevention through sport-specific rehabilitation toward return to play.ReviewAnnals of physical and rehabilitation medicine · 2021Cools AM, Maenhout AG, Vanderstukken F et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.rehab.2020.03.009
Transgender Women in the Female Category of Sport: Perspectives on Testosterone Suppression and Performance Advantage.ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2021Hilton EN, Lundberg TRDOI: 10.1007/s40279-020-01389-3
A Brief Review of Handgrip Strength and Sport Performance.ReviewJournal of strength and conditioning research · 2017Cronin J, Lawton T, Harris N et al.DOI: 10.1519/JSC.0000000000002149
Gaelic Sport Injuries.ReviewSeminars in musculoskeletal radiology · 2020Sullivan CJ, Kavanagh EC, Eustace SJDOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1708872
Osteoporosis and sport.ReviewEuropean journal of radiology · 2019Wilson DJDOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2018.11.010

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of: physical activity
Image: Youth-soccer-indiana.jpg
Has use: pleasure

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topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Sports
Commons category: Sports
topic's main category: Category:Sports
equivalent class: data.culture.fr/thesaurus/resource/ark:/67717/T1-639
Commons gallery: Sport
topic has template: Template:Infobox sport overview
has characteristic: goal
exact match: cv.iptc.org/newscodes/spct/sport
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Sports
Unicode range: U+200D,U+2640,U+2642,U+26BD,U+26BE,U+26F3,U+26F7-26F9,U+FE0F,U+1F396,U+1F3A3,U+1F3B1,U+1F3BD-1F3C0,U+1F3C2,U+1F3C4-1F3CC,U+1F3CF-1F3D3,U+1F3F8,U+1F3F9,U+1F6A3,U+1F6B4,U+1F6B5,U+1F938,U+1F93A,U+1F93C-1F93E,U+1F945,U+1F947-1F94B
OpenStreetMap tag: sport=multi
social media followers: 74700000
hashtag: sports
Stack Exchange site URL: sports.stackexchange.com
P8168: Sturgis
NCI Thesaurus ID: C85399

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Encyclopedic overview

27 sections

Contents

Meaning and usage
Etymology
Nomenclature
Definition
Competition
History
Fair play
Sportsmanship
Cheating
Doping and drugs
Violence
Participation
Gender participation
Youth participation
Disabled participation
Older participation
Spectator involvement
Amateur and professional
Technology
Sports and education
Politics
As a means of controlling and subduing populations
Religious views
See also
References
Sources
Further reading

A sport is a physical activity or game, often competitive and organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in a particular sport can vary from hundreds of people to a single individual.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sport” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.