Nehrutrophy  +  134701 Wed, 07 Sep 05 10:11 AM What is the real difference between the words 'sports' and 'games'. Dictionaries do not pin point the difference. Are they same in all respects? Nehrutrophy Joined on Thu, Sep 1 2005 India New Member 10 Difference Between

	pieanne  +  134703 Wed, 07 Sep 05 10:24 AM As a start, I'd say that "games" implies "competition", whereas "sports" doesn't. pieanne Joined on Thu, Jan 20 2005 South of France ...But I'm Belgian! Veteran Member 7,517 I'm glad to help, but I'm not a native! And please excuse my typos...

	Philip  +  134821 Wed, 07 Sep 05 05:11 PM  Pieanne wrote: As a start, I'd say that "games" implies "competition", whereas "sports" doesn't. We certainly use 'games' to talk about competition, especially in the case of the Olympic Games.  Other than that, I think there are several uses of the two, some of which overlap and contradict. Sports: physical activities vs. Games: cards, checkers, etc. Sport: a specific athletics (baseball) vs. Game: one event of competition (we're going to the baseball game today). There's also the idea of 'game' in the sense of 'hunting'  or other participation ("If you want to travel to Japan this year, I'm "game").  This is probably just a beginning.   Philip Joined on Thu, Jun 23 2005 Veteran Member 8,726 At reise er at leve! - H. C. Andersen

	CalifJim  +  134995 Thu, 08 Sep 05 05:43 AM Sports are usually athletic games, but also include races, which are not usually called games, but races.  Not all games involve or require athletic skills, for example, Scrabble and other word games.  Also, sports are not typically games of chance, like card games, although horse racing is considered a sport ( a race ) and not a game. >> <>See Wittgenstein’s famous remarks on games if you’re feeling philosophical.  “Wittgenstein's point is not that it is impossible to define "game", but that we don't have a definition, and we don't need one.”>> CJ CalifJim Joined on Mon, Aug 2 2004 California Veteran Member 22,379 "There are no facts, only interpretations" - Nietzsche