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This book examines influential conceptions of sport and then analyses the interplay of challenging borderline cases with the standard definitions of sport. It is meant to inspire more thought and debate on just what sport is, how it relates to other activities and human endeavors, and what we can learn about ourselves by studying sport.

This volume is not about the variations of usage of the term 'sport.' It is about the concept; the range of activities in the world that we unite into one idea: sport. It is through the project of defining sport that we can come to understand these activities better, how they are similar or different, and how they related to other human endeavors. This definitional inquiry and the deeper appreciation and apprehension of sport that follows is the goal of this volume. Part One examines several of the standard and influential approaches to defining sport. Part Two uses these approaches to...