An athletic activity requiring skill or bodily prowess and sometimes of a aggressive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, searching, fishing, and so on. The physical sports are divided into three mutually-exclusive classes: fight sports” through which every competitor tries to regulate the opposite, as in boxing and wrestling; impartial sports” through which there needs to be no (or only incidental) contact, akin to swimming and rowing, and; object sports” where the purpose of any exercise is to control an object, as in basketball and soccer.
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