
According to the English etymological dictionary, the term sport originated around the thirteenth century by the abbreviated words “disport” (old English) or “desport” (old French) standing for fun, joy, pleasure, play, or flirting. Certain elements of sports management were already used during the first ancient Olympic Games in 776 BC. One can say, in an exaggerated sense, that sports management was coined even before the word sport (Masteralexis et al. 2008). Currently, sport is defined in the Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries as an activity involving physical exertion, where individuals or squads compete against each other for entertainment, health, and/or money according to fixed rules. Although Klein (2016) agrees with the general definitions, they focus on the use of the term “physical activity.” Games and activities exist that do have a physical component, such as chess. The author also mentions the boundaries of what sport is and what sport is not. People could think that they knew exactly what sport is until eating and running down the hill competitions appeared.
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