Main Difference
The main difference between Game and Sport is that the Game is a recreative activity and Sport is a forms of competitive activity, usually physical
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Game
A game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more often an expression of aesthetic or ideological elements. However, the distinction is not clear-cut, and many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator sports or games) or art (such as jigsaw puzzles or games involving an artistic layout such as Mahjong, solitaire, or some video games).
Games are sometimes played purely for entertainment, sometimes for achievement or reward as well. They can be played alone, in teams, or online; by amateurs or by professionals. The players may have an audience of non-players, such as when people are entertained by watching a chess championship. On the other hand, players in a game may constitute their own audience as they take their turn to play. Often, part of the entertainment for children playing a game is deciding who is part of their audience and who is a player.
Key components of games are goals, rules, challenge, and interaction. Games generally involve mental or physical stimulation, and often both. Many games help develop practical skills, serve as a form of exercise, or otherwise perform an educational, simulational, or psychological role.
Attested as early as 2600 BC, games are a universal part of human experience and present in all cultures. The Royal Game of Ur, Senet, and Mancala are some of the oldest known games.
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Sport
Sport includes all forms of competitive physical activity or games which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants, and in some cases, entertainment for spectators. Hundreds of sports exist, from those between single contestants, through to those with hundreds of simultaneous participants, either in teams or competing as individuals. In certain sports such as racing, many contestants may compete, simultaneously or consecutively, with one winner; in others, the contest (a match) is between two sides, each attempting to exceed the other. Some sports allow a “tie” or “draw”, in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure one winner and one loser. A number of contests may be arranged in a tournament producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regular sports season, followed in some cases by playoffs.
Sport is generally recognised as system of activities which are based in physical athleticism or physical dexterity, with the largest major competitions such as the Olympic Games admitting only sports meeting this definition, and other organisations such as the Council of Europe using definitions precluding activities without a physical element from classification as sports. However, a number of competitive, but non-physical, activities claim recognition as mind sports. The International Olympic Committee (through ARISF) recognises both chess and bridge as bona fide sports, and SportAccord, the international sports federation association, recognises five non-physical sports: bridge, chess, draughts (checkers), Go and xiangqi, and limits the number of mind games which can be admitted as sports.Sport is usually governed by a set of rules or customs, which serve to ensure fair competition, and allow consistent adjudication of the winner. Winning can be determined by physical events such as scoring goals or crossing a line first. It can also be determined by judges who are scoring elements of the sporting performance, including objective or subjective measures such as technical performance or artistic impression.
Records of performance are often kept, and for popular sports, this information may be widely announced or reported in sport news. Sport is also a major source of entertainment for non-participants, with spectator sport drawing large crowds to sport venues, and reaching wider audiences through broadcasting. Sport betting is in some cases severely regulated, and in some cases is central to the sport.
According to A.T. Kearney, a consultancy, the global sporting industry is worth up to $620 billion as of 2013. The world’s most accessible and practised sport is running, while association football is its most popular spectator sport.
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Game (noun)
A playful or competitive activity.
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Game (noun)
A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
“Being a child is all fun and games.”
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Game (noun)
An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
“Games in the classroom can make learning fun.”
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Game (noun)
A particular instance of playing a game; match.
“Sally won the game.”
“They can turn the game around in the second half.”
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Game (noun)
That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
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Game (noun)
The number of points necessary to win a game.
“In short whist, five points are game.”
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Game (noun)
In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
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Game (noun)
The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
“Some of the games in the closet we have on the computer as well.”
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Game (noun)
One’s manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
“Study can help your game of chess.”
“Hit the gym if you want to toughen up your game.”
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Game (noun)
A video game.
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Game (noun)
A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
“When it comes to making sales, John is the best in the game.”
“He’s in the securities game somehow.”
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Game (noun)
Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
“In the game of life, you may find yourself playing the waiting game far too often.”
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Game (noun)
An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
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Game (noun)
Wild animals hunted for food.
“The forest has plenty of game.”
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Game (noun)
The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
“He didn’t get anywhere with her because he had no game.”
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Game (noun)
Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
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Game (noun)
A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.
“You want to borrow my credit card for a week? What’s your game?”
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Game (adjective)
Willing to participate.
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Game (adjective)
That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
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Game (adjective)
Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.
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Game (adjective)
Injured, lame (of a limb).
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Game (verb)
To gamble.
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Game (verb)
To play video games.
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Game (verb)
To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
“We’ll bury them in paperwork, and game the system.”
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Game (verb)
To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
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Sport (noun)
Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
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Sport (noun)
Something done for fun despite being intended for and primarily used for serious goals.
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Sport (noun)
A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
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Sport (noun)
Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
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Sport (noun)
That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
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Sport (noun)
Mockery; derision.
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Sport (noun)
A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
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Sport (noun)
Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
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Sport (noun)
A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.
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Sport (noun)
A sportsman; a gambler.
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Sport (noun)
One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
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Sport (noun)
An amorous dalliance.
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Sport (noun)
A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
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Sport (noun)
Play; idle jingle.
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Sport (verb)
To amuse oneself, to play.
“children sporting on the green”
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Sport (verb)
To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
“Jen sports with Bill’s emotions.”
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Sport (verb)
To display; to have as a notable feature.
“Jen’s sporting a new pair of shoes;”
“he was sporting a new wound from the combat”
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Sport (verb)
To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
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Sport (verb)
To represent by any kind of play.
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Sport (verb)
To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
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Sport (verb)
To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
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Sport (verb)
To close (a door).