Structured Summary
Abstract
Activities or games, usually involving physical effort or skill. Reasons for engagement in sports include pleasure, competition, and/or financial reward.
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Classification
Broader headings
Narrower headings
- Athletic Performance
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Bicycling
- Boxing
- Cricket Sport
- Football
- Gaelic Football
- Golf
- Gymnastics
- Hockey
- Martial Arts
- Mountaineering
- Racquet Sports
- Return to Sport
- Rugby
- Running
- Skating
- Snow Sports
- Soccer
- Sports for Persons with Disabilities
- Team Sports
- Track and Field
- Volleyball
- Walking
- Water Sports
- Weight Lifting
- Wrestling
- Youth Sports
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Synonyms
3 entry terms
- Sport
- Athletics
- Athletic
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Aspects Covered
11 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, physiology, psychology, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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Indexing Annotation
SPORTS is the activity, SPORTS MEDICINE is the specialty
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History Note
ATHLETICS was see under SPORTS 1963-75
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Sports. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D013177. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D013177
- Sports. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport
- Sports. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q349