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New2grammar Posted 18 years ago
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competitive sport

I always hear the term competitive sport but competitive seems to be redundant. Could you give me an example of UNcompetitive sport?
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Things that involve building your own skill level. Weight training; swimming to improve your own strenght and endurance, not to win races; tai chi (I think I spelled that wrong); etc. , to participate, it's a non-competitive sport.

— BarbaraPA

  • Things that involve building your own skill level.
  • Weight training; swimming to improve your own strenght and endurance, not to win races; tai chi (I think I spelled that wrong); etc.
  • , to participate, it's a non-competitive sport.
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Things that involve building your own skill level. Weight training; swimming to improve your own strenght and endurance, not to win races; tai chi (I think I spelled that wrong); etc.

When you are involved in something athletic, but you don't have to have meets, games, matches, etc., to participate, it's a non-competitive sport.
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I see. So even popular sports like soccer, football and basketball can be non competitive sports. It just depends on whether the person is a profesional athlete or not, right?
Thanks, GG.
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No no! Not at all. All of those are team sports that involve games, matches, etc. They are all competitve.
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Though I agree that taichi is not competitive, I believe swimming and weigh lifting are competitive.
I can't seem to think of another example other than taichi as you suggested.
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There are many people who swim simply for excercise, with no intention of ever competing.

Weight lifting is FAR more common to do for self-improvement than for competition.
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