e/Street sports

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has glosseng: Overview Street sports is the term used to describe a number of sports activities which all share in common the cultural fact that they are innately urban phenomena. Other key characteristics attributable include their non-commercial and non-professional nature. Street sports are an expression of the spontaneous, improvisational and creative origins of sport adapted by human ingenuity to the urban environment. In historical terms their origins are traceable to the very earliest evidence of sports in Greek and Roman civilisation . However their rise to prominence can be dated to the industrial revolution and the great shift towards urban living that took place during this era. Today their prevalence and diversity are only matched by the diversity and hybradization of culture in our contemporary world. Although ‘street sports’ as a specific branch of sports have not been given the same degree of attention extended to the more conventional branches of sport, it is nevertheless both possible to delineate their scope and valid to speak in terms of their concept. Street sports are a hybrid form of sport and reflect the adaptation of conventional sports to the cityscape .
lexicalizationeng: street sports
instance ofe/Street game

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