Contact sport
Sport involving physical contact between players or their environment
Contact sport
A contact sport is any sport where physical contact between competitors, or their environment, is an integral part of the game. Examples include gridiron football, rugby football, martial arts, and acrobatic sports. Contact may come about as the result of intentional or incidental actions by the players in the course of play. This is in contrast to non-contact sports where players often have no opportunity to make contact with each other and the laws of the game may expressly forbid contact. In contact sports some forms of contact are encouraged as a critical aspect of the game such as tackling, while others are incidental such as when shielding the ball or contesting an aerial challenge. As the types of contact between players is not equal between all sports they define the types of contact that is deemed acceptable and fall within the laws of the game, while outlawing other types of physical contact that might be considered expressly dangerous or risky such as a high tackle or spear tackle...
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