Posted: Oct 06, 2011 4:38 pm
rJD wrote:I agree that it's a tricky question, & I'm not sure there is a definitive answer. My personal definitions work as follows:
A pastime or leisure pursuit is anything you do for enjoyment;
A game is a pastime that involves rules and competition;
A sport is a game that has an organisation to enforce the rules and/or record the results.
So if some people meet to play football (ie soccer) in the park, the game/sport difference largely hinges on the precise way in which people other than the players respond to the existence of the game?