When did sport begin? If sport is, in essence, play, the claim might be made that sport is much older than humankind, for , as we all have observed, the beasts play.
Frolicking infants, school children playing tag, adult arm wrestlers are demonstrating strong,transgenerational and transspecies bonds with the universe of animals - past, present, and future.
Young animals, particularly, tumble, chase, run wrestle, mock, imitate, and laugh (or so it seems) to the point of delighted exhaustion.
特別是幼獸,它們翻筋斗、追逐、奔跑、扭打、模仿、嬉笑(或者看起來是),直到愉快地精疲力盡。
Their play, and ours, appears to serve no other purpose than to give pleasure to the players, and apparently, to remove us temporarily from the anguish of life in earnest.