Sports is a complicated social and cultural phenomenon. It is a conscious, purposeful and organized social activity with physical and intellectual activities as the basic means, in accordance with the laws of human growth and development, skill formation and function improvement, to promote people's all-round development, improve physical fitness and overall education level, enhance physical fitness and sports ability, and improve lifestyle and quality of life.

With the expansion of international exchanges, the scale and level of sports development has become an important symbol to measure the development and progress of a country and society, and also an important means of diplomatic and cultural exchanges between countries. Sports can be divided into mass sports, professional sports and school sports. Including sports culture, sports education, sports activities, sports competitions, sports facilities, sports organizations, sports technology and many other elements.

Although the word Sports has been translated into Sports, sports and sports, the word sports is not translated from English, but directly borrowed from Japanese. However, the translation of the word "sports" in Japan was not translated into "sports" in one step, but experienced a Japanese cultural process from the translation of "sports", "sports education" and "sports education", which was completed in the 1970s.

Although sports has a long history, the word "sports" appeared relatively late. Because before the word "sports" appeared, countries all over the world called sports differently.

In ancient Greece, games, wrestling and gymnastics were once listed as educational contents. 17 ~ 18 century, hunting, swimming, mountain climbing, running and jumping were added to western education, but there was no unified name. At the end of 18, German J.C.F Gutz Jordan Mutch once classified and integrated these activities, which were collectively called "gymnastics". /kloc-in the 9th century, on the one hand, a new gymnastics system was formed in Germany, which was widely spread in Europe and America; On the other hand, many new sports have emerged one after another. In the school, more and more sports beyond the original scope of gymnastics have been gradually developed, and a new concept of "physical education is education through physical activities" has been established. Therefore, for quite a period of time, the words "gymnastics" and "sports" coexisted, mixed with each other and quite confused. It was not until the beginning of the 20th century that they gradually became known as "sports" internationally.