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U.S. Laboratory of Medicine

Activities or games, usually involving physical effort or skill. Reasons for engagement in sports include pleasure, competition, and/or financial reward.

1845

Alexander Cartwright wrote the first comprehensive set of rules for baseball

1876

Baseball's National League in the US started

Tsu Chu

Chinese played a soccer type game

~1750

Cricket increases in popularity throughout England. The rules are codified and formal cricket clubs are established in London.

~1550

Early forms of tennis were being played in various regions of Europe

1881

FIG, the international governing body of gymnastics, is founded in Paris.

1500s

Golf originated from a game played on the coast of Scotland.

1891

James Naismith invented the sport of basketball in Springfield, Massachussets.

1873

John Trudgen introduces a swimming stroke to swimmers in England, the precursor to the modern front crawl technique.

1490

Leonardo da Vinci designed the world's first bicycle

1895

Physical education instructor William Morgan invented volleyball in Springfield, Massachussets.

1882

Shihan Kano of Japan developed the sport of judo.

Dictionary

Sport (or sports) is all forms of usually competitive physical activity which, through casual or organized participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing entertainment to participants, and in some cases, spectators.

Freebes

Sport refers to a competitive physical activity. Sport is generally recognized as activities based in physical athleticism or physical dexterity. Sports are usually governed by rules to ensure fair competition and consistent adjudication of the winner

Coakley

Sports is institutionalized competitive activities that involve rigorous physical exertion or the use of relatively complex physical skills by participants motivated by personal enjoyment and external rewards.

1848

The Cambridge Rules, the first codefication of the rules of soccer, were created at Cambridge University, England.

1863

The Football Association was is founded in London, England

1839

The Grand National horse race was first run

1875

The Kentucky Derby was held for the first time.

3,000

The documented history of sports goes back at least ____ years

1851

The first America's Cup yacht race was held

1877

The first Test match was played, between Australia and England.

1877

The first Wimbledon tennis event was held

1860

The first ever British Open golf tournament for men was held

1895

The first ever US golf open was held

1858

The first match of Australian Rules Football was played

1600s

The first mention of the game of cricket

1834

The first modern Lacrosse games were played, though the original game was played by North American Indians.

1855

The first modern game of ice hockey was played, in Kingston, Ontario

1881

The first year that the men's US National Tennis Championships was held (the precursor to the US Open)

1887

The first year that the women's US National Tennis Championships was held (the precursor to the US Open)

1887

The game of softball is invented by George Hancock in Chicago, Illinois.

1845

The rules of rugby were formalized in England

~100

The sport of sumo was developed around this time

1897

The world's first bobsled run is constructed at St. Moritz, Switzerland.

~1200

Versions of football (soccer) were being played in various regions of Europe

1895

Volleyball was invented at the same US university as basketball, the new sport was called 'Mintonette'.

sport

a physical activity carried out under an agreed set of rules, with a recreational purpose: for competition or selfenjoyment or a combination of these

game

a recreational activity involving one or more players, defined by a goal that the players try to reach, and some set of rules to play it

776 BC

first Olympic Games recorded at Athens

1897

the first Boston marathon was run.

1861

the first Melbourne Cup horse race was run

1896

the first Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece


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