What is the origin of sports?

Sports originated in ancient Greece more than two thousand years ago.

Greece is a mythical kingdom. Beautiful fairy tales and bizarre folk stories cast a mysterious color on the origin of the ancient Olympic Games. There are many legends about the origin of the ancient Olympic Games, the most important of which are the following two: First, the ancient Olympic Games was a regular sports activity to worship Zeus. The ancient Olympic Games was a sports and religious celebration. It was held in the ancient Greek city of Olympia from 776 BC to 393 AD, and the 292nd ancient Olympic Games was held there.

1. Sports is a complex social and cultural phenomenon. It takes physical and intellectual activities as the basic means, and according to the laws of people's growth and development, skill formation and function improvement, it achieves the conscious and purposeful purpose of promoting people's all-round development, improving physical fitness and overall education level, enhancing physical fitness and sports ability, improving lifestyle and improving quality of life.

2. Classification: Sports can be divided into mass sports, professional sports and school sports. Including sports culture, sports education, sports activities, sports competitions, sports facilities, sports organizations, sports technology and many other elements.

3. Source: Although the word Sports has been translated into Sports, sports and sports, the word sports is not translated from English, but from Japanese, which directly borrows the word "sports" 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.

4. Essence: refers to the inherent fundamental characteristics of sports, which is a kind of sports activity and social and cultural activity of human society.