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...