Sports
A sport is a physical activity and may involve competition.
Can categorize the individual sports (athletics, weightlifting, shooting) or team (basketball, rowing). Although sports are wrongly called, some areas (football, basketball, handball, etc.) there are sports.
The word sport has a long history, having its origin in the Latin word deportation, which among its primary sense, meant to come out the gate that is outside the city walls come to devote to sport.
Study the development of sport in human history, can show significant social changes that occurred over the centuries in different cultures. The concept of sport as an activity involving basic human skills, physical and mental, aims to improve these skills to be used more effectively and suggests that sport is probably as old as the development of human intelligence. For primitive man, physical activity was just a way to improve knowledge about nature and equally a way to control the environment around him.
During the nineteenth century, were discovered many prehistoric art in France (at Lascaux), in Africa and Australia, which shows how in prehistoric times, ritual ceremonies were performed that involved a physical activity for participants. Some of these findings were established as at least 30,000 years.