The essence of sports is to achieve the predetermined goal through a certain amount of physical exercise, emphasizing the necessity of sports participation. Therefore, it is completely logical to abstract physical exercise activities or sports forms into symbols in the concept of sports. At the same time, physical exercise is the basic means of exercise, but it is not the only means. In addition to physical exercise, sports also includes content that does not belong to physical exercise but belongs to sports connotation. Sports connotation includes sports spirit, sports culture and so on. This understanding is very important for forming a correct concept of sports.
(2) The multi-level nature of sports.
People's understanding of sports activities has a gradual process. Human body displacement is the most intuitive physical feature of sports activities. With the development of science, people's understanding of sports has deepened and entered the stage of biopsychology. People realize that sports is not only a kind of physiological and psychological activity, but also a kind of social activity, which belongs to the category of social universal culture, thus forming the overall sports view of biology, psychology and society, that is, the "three-dimensional" sports view.
(3) Sports itself is multi-objective and multi-functional.
Sports is a purposeful activity of human beings. This goal is not static, but gradually changes and enriches with the development and progress of human society and the continuous improvement of knowledge level. At first, people mainly realized the fitness function of sports, so they put forward the purpose of enhancing physical fitness and health. Now people realize that physical education has educational, economic and cultural functions besides physical fitness. Accordingly, with the exploration of sports function, its goal will be gradually extended.
(4) Sports belongs to the cultural category and is an integral part of the whole social culture.
Scholars have always believed that the concept of sports terms should include all spiritual wealth and material wealth of sports; The expansion scope should be determined and classified according to the specific characteristics. The general textbook Sports Theory published by 198 1 divides modern sports into three basic aspects: sports (also called sports in a narrow sense), competitive sports and mass sports. "Physical education" belongs to an educational process or basic way. It does not have the same characteristics as competitive sports and mass sports, but this classification is more in line with the reality and tradition of China. The sports administrative departments and social sports organizations in China's sports system are basically established according to this classification feature. For a long time, the sports industry has also operated in accordance with such an organizational leadership system.