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    There is a subtle difference between games and sports. A game is any physical or mental activity done for fun according to set rules, like board games or video games. A sport more specifically refers to physical activities or contests that involve competition, such as baseball, soccer, or swimming. Sports and games can teach valuable life lessons like time management, respect for rules, and increase self-esteem and mental alertness while reducing stress. While video games are considered by some to be a sport, traditional sports include baseball, soccer, skateboarding, and racing that involve physical competition. Games can serve as models for important cultural activities like hunting and combat by simulating the skills needed for those tasks.

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    There is a subtle difference between games and sports. A game is any physical or mental activity done for fun according to set rules, like board games or video games. A sport more specifically refers to physical activities or contests that involve competition, such as baseball, soccer, or swimming. Sports and games can teach valuable life lessons like time management, respect for rules, and increase self-esteem and mental alertness while reducing stress. While video games are considered by some to be a sport, traditional sports include baseball, soccer, skateboarding, and racing that involve physical competition. Games can serve as models for important cultural activities like hunting and combat by simulating the skills needed for those tasks.

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    There is a subtle difference between games and sports. A game is any physical or mental activity done for fun according to set rules, like board games or video games. A sport more specifically refers to physical activities or contests that involve competition, such as baseball, soccer, or swimming. Sports and games can teach valuable life lessons like time management, respect for rules, and increase self-esteem and mental alertness while reducing stress. While video games are considered by some to be a sport, traditional sports include baseball, soccer, skateboarding, and racing that involve physical competition. Games can serve as models for important cultural activities like hunting and combat by simulating the skills needed for those tasks.

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    1. What is the difference between games and sports?

    Games and sports are very similar: a game is a physical or mental activity or contest
    that has rules and that people do for pleasure. A sport is a contest or game in which
    people do certain physical activities according to a specific set of rules and compete
    against each other.
    The difference is subtle. A game is any mental or physical activity with rules that is
    done for fun, such as physical activities like baseball and soccer, or board games such
    as chess and Monopoly, or card games, or electronic games (like apps), or video
    games. Sports are specific physical activities one can compete in such as baseball,
    soccer, football, field hockey, running, cycling, rock climbing, swimming, diving,
    race car driving, kayaking, or weight lifting. https://learnersdictionary.com/qa/What-
    Is-the-Difference-between-Games-and-Sports
    2. What is the importance of games and sports?
    Sports and games can be a great lesson in time management and they provide the
    spirit of competition that drives them to give extra effort. Through sports children
    learn to respect authority and rules. Sport increases self-esteem, mental alertness and
    it reduces stress and anxiety. https://fourwaysreview.co.za/301259/importance-sports-
    gamesschool/#:~:text=Sports%20and%20games%20can%20be,it%20reduces
    %20stress%20and%20anxiety.
    3. What games are considered sports?
    *Video games *Baseball *Soccer *Skateboarding *Table tennis *Racing car
    *Judo
    *Billiards *Ice-hockey *Bobsleigh *Fencing https://www.idtech.com/blog/video-
    games-should-be-considered-a-sport *
    4. Do games provide models of important utilitarian aspects of culture?
    While games may be cultural universals and may be interesting forms of human
    activity, why are they of any real importance in human life, given that they are often
    thought of as non-productive and just for entertainment? While there are professional
    game players and people who make their livings by playing professional sports, such
    individuals represent very small percentages of any populations. However, Roberts
    and his colleagues (e.g., Roberts, Arth, and Bush 1959; Roberts and Sutton-Smith
    1962) attributed much greater importance to games because they regarded them as
    “expressive models” of typically larger scale, and culturally and socially
    consequential, real-world activities wherein learning took place that could be applied
    to those activities. So, games of physical skill are often relatively transparent models
    of activities such as hunting (e.g., target practice with guns or bows and arrows, trap,
    skeet, or popinjay shooting) and either individual or group combat (e.g., wrestling,
    boxing, spear or javelin throwing, rugby, American football).
    https://hraf.yale.edu/ehc/summaries/games-and-sports#do-games-provide-models-of-
    important-utilitarian-aspects-of-culture
    5. Are sports related to warfare and other forms of aggression?
    Social scientists have long debated the relationship between one form of aggression
    and another. One theory called the “culture pattern model” asserts that aggression is
    largely learned behavior; if so, all forms of aggression are likely to co-occur.
    Alternatively, another theory suggests that letting off steam in one arena of
    aggression, such as sports, reduces other forms of aggression. If the first theory were
    correct, aggressive or combative sports would be expected to predict more aggression
    in other aspects of life. If the second theory were correct, more aggressive sports
    would be expected to less of other kinds of aggression, such as war.
    https://hraf.yale.edu/ehc/summaries/games-and-sports#are-sports-related-to-warfare-
    and-other-forms-of-aggression

    ROAN JOY E. DELLOMAS


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