Sports
- Receration: Recreation is the employment of time
in a non-profitable way, in many ways also a therapeutic
refreshment of one's body or mind. While leisure is
more likely a form of entertainment or rest, recreation
is active and participatory, but in a refreshing and
diverting manner. As people in the world's wealthier
regions lead increasingly sedentary life styles, the
need for recreation has grown. The rise of so called
active vacations exemplify this. Recreation, play,
and fun are not the preserve of humans; nearly all
creatures indulge in this to some extent. Play is
essential for the development of skills, the most
basic of which are motor skills in young creatures.
A sport consists of a physical and mentally competitive
activity carried out with a recreational purpose for
competition, for self-enjoyment, to attain excellence,
for the development of a skill, or some combination
of these. A sport has physical activity, side by side
competition, self-motivation and a scoring system.
The difference of purpose is what characterises sport,
combined with the notion of individual (or team) skill
or prowess. |
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