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Fun, Fervor or Fitness?: Sporting Cultures and Happiness

In: Happiness and Public Policy

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  • Brian Bridges

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All cultures have played games or sports, although the forms and formats have undoubtedly changed over time. Today, for many people sport is about exercise, leisure, and doing things for fun, but clearly it is also much more than that. At an institutionalized level sport is an activity that is both strenuous and involves competition, sometimes intense competition. Yet it should also be enjoyable for both players and spectators. According to one nineteenth century etymologist, sport means “mirth”, being derived form the medieval English word “disporten”, to amuse (Tomlinson 1999, p. 5).

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  • Brian Bridges, 2006. "Fun, Fervor or Fitness?: Sporting Cultures and Happiness," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Yew-Kwang Ng & Lok Sang Ho (ed.), Happiness and Public Policy, chapter 11, pages 221-234, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-28802-7_11
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230288027_11
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