A sport is defined as a competition between a person (or group of people i.e. team) against a seperate person or team. The person or team will try to prevent the other person or team from scoring a definitive point while trying to score a point themselves.
I bolded the two words that I believe are the most important words in the definition. These two words seperate a sport from a an athletic event. I say atheltic event because some of these events take a tremendous amount of athletic ability. By nature they are all competitive. A sport is always an athletic event, but an athletic event is not always a sport.
Here is my breakdown:
Sport
- Baseball/Softball
- Football
- Basketball
- Hockey (Ice & Field)
- Rugby
- Polo
- Water Polo
- Lacrosse
- Tennis
- Volleyball
- Cricket
- Fencing
Athletic (Leisure) Event
- Golf
- Bowling
- Gymnastics
- Figure Skating
- Swimming/Diving
- Wrestling ?
- Cross Crounty (Run & Ski)
- Track & Field
- Horse Shoes
- Boxing ?
- Skiing
- Snowboarding
- Cycling
- Equestrian
- Darts
- Billiards
- Handball
I put a question mark by boxing and wrestling because if there is a knock out or pin those are definitely definitive, but other than that the points are subjective.
