Sports - According to the internet based dictionaries, It is a movement, entertaining, organized,

competitive. Requires discipline, fairplay, commitment and strategy. Governed by set of rules or
custom.

Etymologically - Sport term is comes from the Old French "desport" meaning "leisure"

In American English they define sport as the recreational activity.

3 Classification of Sports According sa Players/ Compositions

1. Individual Sport - Only 1 player against an opponent.

2. Dual Sport - Dual/pair players against another 2 players.

3. Team Sport - 3 or more players in a team.

2 Classification of Sport According to Level

1. Amateur - Proletarian/popular type of sport, More acting as a ambassador of a place,

Competing in highly organized games.

EX. National games, SEA games, Olympics, ASIAN Games

2. Professional - A profitable type of sport elevated as a entertainment.

EX. NBA, Manny Pacquiao, PBA

GENERAL CLASSIFICATION

1. ATHLETICS - Running, Jumping, Throwing Events

2. BALL (GAMES) SPORTS - Basketball nd Volleyball

3. CLUB-AND-BALL SPORTS - Golf

4. CUE SPORTS - Billiards

5. COMBAT SPORTS - Taekwondo, Karatedo

6. DANCE SPORTS - Standards and Latin Dance Sports

7. EXTREME SPORTS - Motorcross, BMX, UFC

8. GYMNASTICS - Artistics and Rhymetic Gymnastics

9. MIND SPORTS - Chess

10. MOTOR SPORTS - Motorcross

11. RACKET SPORTS - Badminton and Table Tennis

 12. RIDING SPORTS - Equestrian

13. SHOOTING AND TARGET SPORTS - Rifle/Gun Shooting

14. WATER SPORTS - Swimming

15. WEIGHT SPORTS - Weightlifting

16. WINTER SPORTS - Figure/Ice Skating

17. WHEEL SPORTS - Cycling

TERMINOLOGIES

Atheletes - Pertains to the player in sports.

Athletics - According to Lumpkin,1998 It is a organized, highly structured, competitive

activities that skilled individuals participate.

Coach - Formal authority within a team.

Competition - Competitive sport or tournament

Court - Physical Facility where sports is played

Equipment - heavy and well-built materials used in sports

Exericise - According again to Lumpkin,1998 that it means to participate, to strengthen

Games - Synonimous to governed by rules but it is a recretional activities that are not
considered as SPORTS. EX. web games, card games

Leisure - Available time used from work and responsibilities

Match - An entire game characterized by a number, time and order

Official - A group or individual that have a full jurisdiction over a game

Play - Act of playing, Amusement for fun

Riot (Hooliganism) - Violence in sports. Negative attitude in sports.

Set - Partition of a match.

Sportmanship - According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary It is attitude that strives a fairplay,

grace in victory or defeat.

Supplies - Refers to the racquets and ball that are inevitably replace.

Team Captain - Leader or a player, In-charge with his/her co team members.

Trainer - Instructor that teaches drills and skills.

Uniform - Prescribed clothing of the players.

2 Confusing Explanations in Inividual/Dual Sport

Explanation A - Sports played by equal number of players inside the court or playing area.

Explanation B - In individual sport if the game is played against her own record, In dual if a
game played by 1 person against 1.

Athletics - Popularly known as TRACK AND FIELD. Oldest form of organized sport. Comes
from Greek word ATHLOS means CONTEST.

Athletics Event: Running Events

• Sprint - 100m, 200m, 400m

• Middle Distance - 800m, 1500m, 1 mile long run

• Long Distance - 3000m steeplechase, 5000m, 10,000m

• Hurdles - 110/100m, 400m

• Relay - 4x100m, 4x400m

4 THROWING EVENTS

1. Shot Put - Olympic sport since 1896, pushing or putting a heavy metal ball called a
SHOT OUT of a 7 foot diameter conrete circle. Shot weighs 1 lbs - Men. 8.8 lbs - Women
competitions.

2. Discuw Throw - Sport since Greek circa 708 B.C. Throwing a heavy circular disc as far
as possible. Until 1996. First featured in Olympics in 1896. First women's olympic event
in 1928. Men throw - 4 lb., 7 oz. Women throw - 2 lb., 3 oz
3. Javelin Throw -

4. Hammer Throw