Activĭtas is a Latin word that came to Spanish as an activity . The notion is usually used with reference to the action or diligence carried out by an individual or an entity. Sports , for its part, is an adjective that refers to what is related to sport (competition or game subject to rules and that requires training to perfect its practice).
Sports activities are those that involve the practice of one of these disciplines. As part of a sport, these activities must fall within a certain regulation . Soccer , for example, forces players not to be able to touch the ball with their hands, except in special situations (such as a throw-in, also known as a throw-in) or in the case of the goalkeeper (goalkeeper or goalkeeper). Therefore, whoever wants to practice this sporting activity must adapt to this and other rules.
The importance of physical condition
It can be said that sporting activities are physical activities : they always require some degree of effort to move the body and cope with the demands of the discipline.
To play tennis , a person must develop good muscles in their arms and hands to hit the ball, in addition to having the endurance to run throughout the entire match.
Sports activities and sports
Although it is often difficult to distinguish between sporting activities and sport, one of the most characteristic features of the latter is that it involves the search for a result , the fight for victory in the context of a confrontation between two or more teams. In other words, athletes take on the challenge of competing against each other. On the other hand, the concept of sports activities is usually more related to meetings in which the main objective is to perform physical exercise in a friendly way.
One of the areas in which sports activities tend to appear quite frequently is the educational center, whether primary or secondary school, and even university. In these cases, it is common for celebrations to be organized at the end of the year, with the aim of parents and children meeting and enjoying different sporting events, generally, without pursuing any title.
As can be seen, when a school or university brings together students and their families to take part in this type of sporting activities, physical exercise is the meeting point between all the guests, and not the focus of a confrontation over a drink. .
Demonstration of what has been learned
Another objective that sports activities sometimes pursue is to allow students to exhibit everything they have learned during the school year , something that is also very common in the field of art teaching in general (plastic arts exhibitions or music recitals). , for example, which are attended by the students' loved ones).
The concept of sports activities is very broad and does not have very clear limits: while an institution can use it as explained in the last two paragraphs, so that a large group of people can get together in a venue and spend a few pleasant hours doing different sports. Others may understand it as a truly competitive event, in which there is the promise of a prize for the winners.
It is important to point out that sports activities are very beneficial for our health , since they help us make more natural use of our body, in that they teach us to know it in depth and take advantage of its different characteristics, something that is currently It gives less and less spontaneously: using your legs to get from the kitchen to the car and then to the office is not exactly the objective that nature had in giving us these limbs.