Defining Sport

A sports movie is a movie genre which uses sport as the central theme of the movie. It’s a fictional production in which an athlete, sporting occasion, sport member, or fan of sport are heavily involved, and that rely strongly on sport for their major plot motivation or resolution. It’s not just famous sport people who write these movies. They tend to be people who follow the sport from a fairly wide variety of perspectives.

You have sort of an objective, and usually parallel viewing experience when you watch a movie about a sport. There is sort of an unspoken agreement about the objectivity, what’s going to happen, and why it’s happening. The audience already knows or suspects something is going on, because that’s how sports are, but we don’t know or guess, we just observe. Most of the time there is some kind of conflict within the game itself, usually between two or more competing teams or individual players.

For most movies, the competition is undertaken competitively. The sport in question may be a competition for championships, prizes, status, or whatever. Sometimes there may also be some sort of money or status discrepancy involved. The reason for undertaking is usually to determine who is the best. In the US, there are lots of intramural baseball matches that are undertaken competitively.

Another definition of sport is an activity in which people engage with each other at a regular and defined rate. Sport includes any activity undertaken for the purpose of improving the nature, structure, performance, and results of the game, and undertaken actively by people for the purpose of improving their skills, fitness, mental condition, and ability to win. These can be competitions, games, and training programs.

Sometimes there is no real goal, no real attempt to win, and no real need to participate. It’s the effort and physical skill that matters. For example, archery competitions don’t really determine who is the best shooter. They’re only trying to shoot as many arrows as possible. And even when the goal is to hit the largest number of arrows into the target area as possible, the competitor doesn’t have to necessarily become the best shooter.

When you study definitions of sport, you’ll see that there are lots of different types of competition involved. There are actually multiple definitions of each of these competitions, because they’re all different types of sporting activities. And of course there is the actual sport itself, which covers pretty much any physical skill that someone might want to try to achieve, be it sprinting for height, throwing a dart, kicking a ball, playing football, wrestling with another player, or playing any other type of sport. A sport is any activity undertaken for the purpose of improving the nature, structure, performance, and results of that particular sport.