The meaning of sports has narrow sense and broad sense. In a narrow sense, physical education is a purposeful and planned educational process to enhance physical fitness, impart physical exercise knowledge, skills and techniques, and cultivate moral and will qualities through physical activities. It is an integral part of education and an important aspect of cultivating people with all-round development.

Sports in a broad sense is a social and cultural activity. Sports (also called sports in a broad sense) refers to a conscious and organized social activity with physical exercise as the basic means, with the purpose of strengthening physical fitness, promoting people's all-round development, enriching social and cultural life and promoting spiritual civilization construction.

2. Function:

It is a part of the total social culture, and its development is restricted by and serves the politics and economy of a certain society. As an integral part of sports culture, it is a purposeful and valuable social activity based on the laws of people's physiological and psychological development, with special sports activities as the basic means to enhance physical fitness, develop people's sports ability and improve people's quality of life.

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I. Sources

Although the word Sports has been translated into Sports, sports and sports, the word sports is not translated from English, but directly borrowed from Japanese.

However, the translation of the word "sports" in Japan was not translated into "sports" in one step, but experienced a Japanese cultural process from the translation of "sports", "sports education" and "sports education", which was completed in the 1970s.

Although sports has a long history, the word "sports" appeared relatively late. Because before the word "sports" appeared, countries all over the world called sports differently.

Second, the relevant history

According to historical data such as cultural relics and buildings, China began to carry out sports as early as around 2000 BC. Gymnastics was a very popular sport in ancient China. From the monument built for Pharaoh, we can see that swimming, fishing and other sports have developed in ancient Egypt thousands of years ago and established the rules of sports.

Other sports in Egypt include javelin throwing, high jump and wrestling. The sports in ancient Persia include Iranian traditional martial arts and heroic sports, which are closely related to fighting skills. Sports that also originated in ancient Persia include polo and javelin competitions.

There have been a large number of sports since ancient Greece, and the development of military culture and sports in ancient Greece influenced each other. A prominent manifestation of the profound influence of sports on the ancient Greeks is that they founded the Olympic Games, which was held every four years in a small village called Olympia in the Peloponnesus.

Since the ancient Olympic Games, the organization and related rules of sports have been continuously strengthened. Industrialization has given residents in developed and developing countries more leisure time to participate in and watch ornamental sports. The number of people participating in sports has increased and communication has become more common.

With the strengthening of mass media and global contact, this trend is more obvious. The specialization of sports has become the mainstream and sports have become more popular. Sports fans chase professional athletes through radio, television and internet, and they also participate in amateur sports to get exercise and entertainment.

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