{
  "id": "sports.activity",
  "term": "sports",
  "sense": "activity",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "sports",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "an organized structure where a set of people move in regular competition toward a goal",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "motion.movement",
      "organized.structure",
      "sets.grouped",
      "goal.purpose",
      "people.social",
      "competition.social",
      "regular.frequency"
    ],
    "interaction": "the movement of people in a set is organized regularly and directed toward a shared goal, with their efforts mutually influenced by competition.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "competitive dynamics",
      "goal-directed organization",
      "structured group interaction"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The English Premier League schedules 380 matches annually among 20 clubs to determine a champion.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Tour de France runs 21 stages across France each July, cycling over 3,000 kilometers for the yellow jersey.",
      "domain": "events"
    },
    {
      "text": "NBA teams play 82 regular-season games yearly, competing for playoff seeding and the championship trophy.",
      "domain": "organizations"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "type.category",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "player.human"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "sport",
    "sports"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive components 'competition.social' and 'regular.frequency' to align with the definition. Kept definition slightly adjusted for clarity and accuracy, removing redundancy while p"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-sports.activity"
}