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Sports

Medical Definition: Activities or games, usually involving physical effort or skill. Reasons for engagement in sports include pleasure, competition, and/or financial reward.
Guide Notes: SPORTS is the activity, SPORTS MEDICINE is the speciality; /inj = ATHLETIC INJURIES but see note there; /physiol permitted; Manual 30.31
Also Called: Athletics
Sports Categories.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Baseball - A competitive nine-member team sport including softball.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Basketball - A competitive team sport played on a rectangular court having a raised basket at each end.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Bicycling - The use of a bicycle for transportation or recreation. It does not include the use of a bicycle in studying the body's response to physical exertion (BICYCLE ERGOMETRY TEST see EXERCISE TEST).
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Boxing - A two-person sport in which the fists are skillfully used to attack and defend.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Football - A competitive team sport played on a rectangular field. This is the American or Canadian version of the game and also includes the form known as rugby. It does not include non-North American football (= SOCCER).
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Golf - A game whose object is to sink a ball into each of 9 or 18 successive holes on a golf course using as few strokes as possible.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Hockey - A game in which two parties of players provided with curved or hooked sticks seek to drive a ball or puck through opposite goals. This applies to either ice hockey or field hockey.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Martial Arts - Activities in which participants learn self-defense mainly through the use of hand-to-hand combat. Judo involves throwing an opponent to the ground while karate (which includes kung fu and tae kwon do) involves kicking and punching an opponent.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Mountaineering - A sport involving mountain climbing techniques.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Racquet Sports - Games in which players use a racquet to hit a ball or similar type object.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Skating - Using ice skates, roller skates, or skateboards in racing or other competition or for recreation.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Snow Sports - Sports activities in the snow.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Soccer - A game in which a round inflated ball is advanced by kicking or propelling with any part of the body except the hands or arms. The object of the game is to place the ball in opposite goals.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Track and Field - Sports performed on a track, field, or arena and including running events and other competitions, such as the pole vault, shot put, etc.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Weight Lifting - A sport in which weights are lifted competitively or as an exercise.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Wrestling - A sport consisting of hand-to-hand combat between two unarmed contestants seeking to pin or press each other's shoulders to the ground.

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