A sport is an activity involving physical efforts and skill, in which an individual, or a team, usually competes against another person or team. A sport is usually governed by a set of customs and rules, especially when it is a competitive sport. But many sports may also be practiced for a recreational purpose or for physical enhancement. A sport is not a game. The difference lies in the degree of involvement one is ready to have in a physical, or mind-based activity: a game is just for fun, a sport is more than fun.

From the average man view point, a sport is a physical activity involving commitment toward a club, a team or oneself. Sports allow people to test their ability to surpass themselves and to take up challenges. When you start practicing a sport, you start from scratch. It's really self-satisfying to improve your skill step-by-step, and, after a while, to look back in the past realizing how much stated objectives you achieved. Team sports are really good on human terms: on the sports field you are given the chance to prove your partners that they can count on you and to learn fair-play basis.

Sports have always been practiced. First it allowed men to master their environment. The skills of most sports changed throughout history, from basic human skills, to skills that could only be reached through training and working out. Some sports used to reflect social classes: horse riding, polo, were for the rich because they implied expensive equipments. Some others like rugby were popular and came from industrialized areas. Finally, some other like martial arts (karate, kung-fu) were part of a nation's cultural rituals.

Sports have always been praised, from the Ancient Greece Olympic Sports to nowadays. It has always been said that competitive sports make human beings better, and help establishing friendship between countries, for the values of commitment, restrain and fair-play promoted spread to other social spheres in the society.

For people who can't practice sports at high level, they can support professional athletes. The most practiced and popular sport in the world is soccer, even though volley ball holds the record for highest number of participants worldwide (last record: in 2002, 998 million and 218 federations)
formula one racing has almost as many fans as soccer, rugby and basketball. Girl's favorite sport is gymnastics.