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Team sport refers to sport
Sport

Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of regulation of sport or traditions and often engaged in competitively. Sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determinant of the outcome , but the term is also used to include activities such as mind sports and motor...
s that are practiced between opposing teams, where the players interact directly and simultaneously between them to achieve an objective. The objective generally involves team members facilitating the movement of a ball
Ball

A ball is a round object with various uses. It is usually sphere but can be ovoid. It is used in ball games, where the play of the game follows the state of the ball as it is hit, kicked or thrown by players....
 or similar item in accordance with a set of rules, in order to score points.

Theory of team sport
One of the greatest advantages of participating in team sports is that it encourages people to interact and get along with others, and teaches participants to cooperate with one another. Team sports tend to follow the human trend of pack cooperation to achieve certain physical goals, and to compete with rival humans.

Team sports improve skill level not only because others are relying on participants' performances, but because each player still has the human nature to be competitive, even against his or her teammates.

Some would argue, however, that sport is part of the mechanism of ideology.






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Team sport refers to sport
Sport

Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of regulation of sport or traditions and often engaged in competitively. Sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determinant of the outcome , but the term is also used to include activities such as mind sports and motor...
s that are practiced between opposing teams, where the players interact directly and simultaneously between them to achieve an objective. The objective generally involves team members facilitating the movement of a ball
Ball

A ball is a round object with various uses. It is usually sphere but can be ovoid. It is used in ball games, where the play of the game follows the state of the ball as it is hit, kicked or thrown by players....
 or similar item in accordance with a set of rules, in order to score points.

History


Evidence suggests that the Mesoamerican ballgame
Mesoamerican ballgame

The Mesoamerican ballgame was a sport with ritual associations played for over 3000 years by the pre-Columbian peoples of Mesoamerica. The sport had different versions in different places during the millennia, and a modern version of the game, Ulama game, is still played in a few places by the local Native American ....
 was played as a team sport as early as 1,000 BC, with competing teams attempting to pass a rubber ball through a vertically suspended stone circle.

Theory of team sport


One of the greatest advantages of participating in team sports is that it encourages people to interact and get along with others, and teaches participants to cooperate with one another.
Volleyball Game
Team sports tend to follow the human trend of pack cooperation to achieve certain physical goals, and to compete with rival humans.

Team sports improve skill level not only because others are relying on participants' performances, but because each player still has the human nature to be competitive, even against his or her teammates.

Some would argue, however, that sport is part of the mechanism of ideology. This is to say that it is part of the apparatus which aims, above all else, at the reproduction of the status quo
Status Quo

Status Quo, also known as The Quo or just Quo, are an England rock music band whose music is characterized by the twelve-bar blues....
. Partly because of the play character of the activity, i.e., because of the empty and disciplinary repetition, and partly because of the external imposition of "rules," one is arguably forced into considering sport as conditioning for acquiescing before aimless modes of production. Just as in post-industrial society the work force must learn to submit to relations of production that repress the real needs of its citizens, so too in sport do they learn to compete with and against each other, in the service of a vacuous prize.

See also

  • Team Sport World Champions