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The word "sport" comes from the Old French desport meaning "leisure", with the oldest definition in English from around 1300 being "anything humans find amusing or entertaining". [ 8 ] Other meanings include gambling and events staged for the purpose of gambling; hunting; and games and diversions, including ones that require exercise. [ 9 ]
An unofficial national sport is an activity that holds significant popularity or cultural and historical significance within a particular nation but lacks legal recognition as the official national sport. These informal national sports typically reflect a nation's preferences and their perceived connection to the nation's culture and identity.
Sport in Kosovo is a tradition and plays a prominent role. Popular sports in Kosovo include football , basketball , volleyball , handball , and rugby , whereas major individual sports include wrestling , judo , swimming , boxing , karate and skiing .
SuperSport is an Albanian group of television sports channels operated by terrestrial television platform DigitAlb.The channels broadcast a range of different sports such as the English Premier League, Spanish La Liga, German Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2, Dutch Eredivisie, French Ligue 1 and Ligue 2, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Euro, UEFA Europa Conference League, Copa América, ATP 500, ATP 1000 ...
The following is a list of phrases from sports that have become idioms (slang or otherwise) in English. They have evolved usages and meanings independent of sports and are often used by those with little knowledge of these games. The sport from which each phrase originates has been included immediately after the phrase.
Palace of Youth and Sports (Albanian: Pallati i Rinisë dhe Sporteve; Serbian: Палата омладине и спорта, romanized: Palata omladine i sporta), formerly named Boro and Ramiz (Albanian: Boro-Ramiz; Serbian: Боро и Рамиз), is a multi-purpose hall located in Pristina, Kosovo.
The sport is governed by the Football Association of Albania (Federata Shqiptare e Futbollit). The first recorded match was between students at a Christian mission in Shkodër . Other towns and cities followed suit and on 6 June 1930 the Football Association of Albania was established.
The other, narrower principal meaning of the word comes from British English and variants within the British Commonwealth; this meaning of athletics refers solely to the concept of the sport of athletics (a category of sporting competition that comprises track and field sports and various other forms of foot racing), rather than physical sport ...