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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
sports athletic games or tests of skill undertaken primarily for the diversion of those who take part or those who observe them. The range is great; usually, however, the term is restricted to any play, pastime, exercise, game, or contest performed under given rules, indoors or outdoors, on an individual or a team basis, with or without competition, but requiring skill and some form of physical exertion. Some sports, such as hunting , fishing , running, and swimming , derive from the rhythms and work requirements of primitive everyday life. Some, such as riding, shooting, throwing... Read more
amateur
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition in sports, one who engages in athletic competition...social status, first applying the term to sportsmen who did not need to work with their hands...of the 20th cent., leaders of two major sports movements, the American intercollegiate... Read more
automobile racing
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...following year. It is now one of the most popular spectator sports in the world. Of many different types of competition, the most...races, and some also drive in the two major endurance races for sports cars, the 24 Hours at Daytona (Daytona Beach, Fla.) and the... Read more

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