What is the function and value of sports?

1. Function: "Keeping fit" is the essential function of sports, and the educational function is the most basic social function of sports.

2. Value: through physical exercise, we can develop our bodies, enhance our physique, promote the all-round development of people and serve social development.

Contemporary sports is the product of social progress and the development of human civilization. As a social and cultural activity, with the increasing frequency and expansion of international exchanges, contemporary sports activities have gradually become an important means of cultural exchanges between countries. The more society progresses, the more sports develop. With the continuous development of social economy and culture, the scale and level of sports development has also become a symbol to measure the development and progress of a country.

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The meaning of sports has narrow sense and broad sense. In a narrow sense, physical education is a purposeful and planned educational process to enhance physical fitness, impart physical exercise knowledge, skills and techniques, and cultivate moral and will qualities through physical activities. It is an integral part of education and an important aspect of cultivating people with all-round development. ?

Sports in a broad sense is a social and cultural activity. Sports (also called sports in a broad sense) refers to a conscious and organized social activity with physical exercise as the basic means, with the purpose of strengthening physical fitness, promoting people's all-round development, enriching social and cultural life and promoting spiritual civilization construction.

It is a part of the total social culture, and its development is restricted by and serves the politics and economy of a certain society. As an integral part of sports culture, it is a purposeful and valuable social activity based on the laws of people's physiological and psychological development, with special sports activities as the basic means to enhance physical fitness, develop people's sports ability and improve people's quality of life. ?

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia? sports