SPORTS:

 includes all forms of competitive physical activity or games which, through casual or organized

participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing
enjoyment to participants, and in some cases, entertainment for spectators. Usually the contest or
game is between two sides, each attempting to exceed the other. Some sports allow a tie game;
others provide tie-breaking methods, to ensure one winner and one loser. A number of such two-
sided contests may be arranged in a tournament producing a champion. Many sports
leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regular sports season, followed in
some cases by playoffs. Hundreds of sports exist, from those between single contestants, through
to those with hundreds of simultaneous participants, either in teams or competing as individuals.
In certain sports such as racing, many contestants may compete, each against each other, with
one winner.

ATHLETICS:
Athletics is a term encompassing the human competitive sports and games requiring physical
skill, and the systems of training that prepare athletes for competition performance. Athletic
sports or contests, are competitions which are primarily based on human, physical competition,
demanding the qualities of stamina, fitness, and skill. Athletic sports form the bulk of popular
sporting activities, with other major forms including motorsports, precision sports, extreme
sports and animal sports.
Athletic contests, as one of the earliest types of sport, are prehistoric and comprised a significant
part of the Ancient Olympic Games, along with equestrian events.[3] The word "athletic" is
derived from the Ancient Greek word άθλος (athlos) meaning "contest." Athletic sports became
organized in the late 19th century with the formation of organizations such as the Amateur
Athletic Union in the United States and the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports
Athlétiques in France. The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later
the NCAA) was established in 1906 to oversee athletic sports at college-level in the United
States, known as college athletics.

RACKET SPORTS:
Tennis, badminton, and table tennis are the three racket sports featured during the 2016 Summer
Olympics in Brazil. Though all three have different origins and rules, the racket sports are
bonded by their use of the handy projectile hitter that gives the grouping its name. The ancestor
to modern rackets is believed to have been first used in a past Olympic game called “jeu de
paume,” now evolved into a sport known as “real tennis” (in order to distinguish it from the
current iteration of tennis). The original racket adopted for the game was made of a frame with
an open loop that was tightly wrapped and bound with string. Tennis and badminton use rackets
very similar to these originals, though they are slightly altered in form (tennis rackets being
stouter and badminton rackets having longer, thinner arms).
COMBATIVES:
A combat sport, or fighting sport, is a competitive contact sport, usually with one-on-one
combat. Determining the winner depends on the particular contest's rules. In many fighting
sports, a contestant wins by scoring more points than the opponent or by disabling the
opponent. Mixed Martial Arts, Boxing, Wrestling, Savate, Kickboxing, Muay Thai, Sanda, Tae
Kwon Do, Capoeira, Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, Sambo and Kūdō are examples of combat sports.
Folk wrestling exists in many forms and in most cultures, and can be considered a cultural
universal. The Ancient Olympic Games were largely composed of sports that tested skills related
to combat.
Today athletes usually fight one-on-one, but may still use various skill sets such
as strikes in boxing that only allows punching, taekwondo where punches and kicks are the focus
or muay thai and burmese boxing that also allow the use of elbows and knees. There are
also grappling based sports that may concentrate on obtaining a superior position as
in freestyle or Collegiate wrestling, using throws such as in judo and Greco-Roman wrestling, or
using submissions as in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Modern mixed martial arts competitions are similar to
the historic Greek Olympic sport of pankration and allow a wide range of both striking and
grappling techniques.

ALLIED SPORTS:
A team sport includes any sport which involves two or more players working together towards a
shared objective. A team sport is an activity in which individuals are organized into
opposing teams which compete to win. Examples are basketball, volleyball, water
polo, handball, lacrosse, cricket, baseball, and the various forms of football and hockey.
Team sports are practiced between opposing teams, where the players interact directly and
simultaneously between them to achieve an objective. The objective generally involves
teammates facilitating the movement of a ball or similar object in accordance with a set of rules,
in order to score points.
Organized sports in athletics, started in Greece in 776 BC, is recorded up to 393 BC. These
games, which are Olympic games, were a form to test the skills of warriors, consisted
of running, jumping or leaping, wrestling (combat sport), and javelin throw. [6] In
the Bayankhongor Province of Mongolia cave paintings dating back to Neolithic age of 7000 BC
depict a wrestling match surrounded by crowds. 

RECREATIONAL SPORT:
Recreational sports are competitive physical games such as basketball or baseball that are played
for fun as opposed to professionally.