What did the word SPORT come from?
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word sport was first used to describe athletic endeavors in 1863.  Prior to that the word was used as early as 1440 to describe more general pasttimes and activities.\n\nThe word itself is a form of another word, disport, which ties back to the French word deporter, which means to divert, to amuse.\n\nIt's usage around the world probably stems from a couple of reasons: 1) that a similar word developed in local languages that have the same basis as English but, more likely, 2) that they are simply adopting the English word for this activity
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In medieval England there used to be a chaotic game which football is based on - all the yokels would kick a sheep's bladder around the place from one end of the village to the other. \n\nHowever, other countries developed their own game involving kicking a ball so it's hard to say where it definitively started.
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It comes from the fact that football as we know it is actually association football, as opposed to rugby football or gaelic or aussie rules.  "Soccer" comes from association.
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American football derives directly from European football and rugby in the late 1800s and most likely, even though the rules changed over the past 120 years, the name stuck. "Soccer" is a contraction for the phrase "association football", a word I believe actually began in England, not America.
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It's a contraction of 'Association Football.' The term originated in England in 1863, because there were already other forms of football at the time. \n\nAnd its not true that "everywhere else its Football" - Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa also call it 'soccer' or 'association football.' Italy calls it 'calcio.'
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Hi there...\n\nHere is the answer I found from the Word Detective site:\n\nThe use of "gridiron" as a metaphor for the football field, and, by extension, to the game itself, dates back to 1897. The original "gridirons" were just that: grids made of iron, used to cook fish or meat over an open fire. Early on in the history of football, someone in the cheap seats high in the stadium must have noticed that the parallel yardlines marking the field resembled a "gridiron," and so the metaphor was born. The first use of this sense of "gridiron" in print came in an account of the annual Harvard-Yale game carried in the Boston Herald.
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Squash derives from the games loosely known as Rackets during the 19th century. Rackets itself came from a strange source. Sports involving hitting a ball with a racket of sorts had become increasingly popular at that time and one version developed in London's Fleet prison where debtor inmates got their exercise by whacking a ball against the prison's many walls. \n\nBy some weird and wonderful twist of fate the idea was taken up at Harrow public school, where it was noticed it was more interesting and physically demanding to play with a ball that  'squashed' on impact with the wall rather than bouncing straight back. Squash was officially founded when the school had four courts purpose built for the new sport.
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RUBBER MATCH - "A 'rubber match' or 'rubber game' or simply 'rubber' in any sport means a deciding contest between two tied opponents. The term dates back to the late 16th century but no one seems certain of its etymology or in what sport it originated. The expression was not used in card games until the mid 18th century and the earliest recorded use of it appears to be a 1599 reference, cited in the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' to the game of bowls. The word 'rubber' in the term seems to derive from a word of unknown origin, not the resilient substance called 'rubber' or the verb 'to rub.'" From "Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins" by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 1997).
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Football started as soccer. They only use their feet.  Americans stole the name because it was the next sport to move a ball back and forth across the field. It should have been called "Wussy Rugby". Hamburg was the name of the city where the piece's of meat were first cooked in Germany by the Deustchvolk, before being added to buns in America (In Russia, they used to keep the meat under their saddle to tenderize it and eat it raw later). Some people argue that the hot dog got it's name because of the shape of a Dachsund (used to be called "the little dog sausage").
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Kinesiologist. The word comes from the greek kines, which means movement, and sport scientists study how the body moves and how to improve the way it moves for different sports.
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Ballismus comes from the Greek word "ballismos" meaning "a jumping about" or "dancing." according to this site:\nhttp://staff.washington.edu/chudler/questions.html
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Yes, the definition is 1. for sporting activities: relating to or used in physical or recreational activities
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Comes from Scottish.  They invented the game, called it "Goff".  Golf is the Americanized version of that word.  Not an acronym for anything, that's absurd.
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Tennis: Originating in England in the late 19th Century, the game spread first throughout the English-speaking world, particularly among the upper classes.\n\nRugby:The legendary story/myth about the origin of Rugby football—whereby a young man named William Webb Ellis "took the ball in his arms [i.e. caught it] and ran" while playing Rugby School's already distinctive version of football (not to be confused with association football, which was codified much later) in 1823\n\nCricket:A basic form of the sport can be traced back to the 13th century, but it may have existed even earlier than that. The game seems to have originated among shepherds and farm workers in the Weald between Kent and Sussex. Written evidence exists of a sport known as creag being played by Prince Edward, the son of Edward I (Longshanks), at Newenden, Kent in 1300.\n\nIn 1598, a court case referred to a sport called Creckett being played at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford around 1550. The Oxford English Dictionary gives this as the first recorded instance of cricket in the English language.\n\nVolleyball:On February 9, 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, William G. Morgan, a YMCA physical education director, created a new game called Mintonette as a pastime to be played preferably indoors and by any number of players. The game took some of its characteristics from tennis and handball. Another indoor sport, basketball, was catching on in the area, having been invented just ten miles away in the city of Springfield, Massachusetts only four years before. Mintonette (as volleyball was then known) was designed to be an indoor sport less rough than basketball for older members of the YMCA, while still requiring a bit of athletic effort.
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American football originated from soccer.Soccer is more universally known as "football"  because soccer players use their feet. Players decided to change the game with restrictions like the no-use of hands rule ....some players, who didn't like that, created rugby. The USA created its own version of the game under the original name "football" with more of a rugby style than soccer.Thanks for asking !
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why is 'football' called 'soccer'?\n\nThe word "soccer" actually comes from England, where the modern version of the game originated.\n\nIn England, there were two types of football: rugby football and association football. The slang term for rugby football was "rugger," and the slang for association football was "assoc." The word "assoc" gradually evolved into "soccer," which was much easier to say.\n\nWhen association football was introduced to North America, gridiron football (the type played by the NFL and in the Super Bowl) was already well established. To avoid confusion, Americans adopted the British nickname "soccer" for the new sport.
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you'll find some useful info on the origins of the word derby in football at\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_derby