Sports and Games
- Run (American football), an offensive action in American football
- Run (baseball), the unit of scoring in baseball
- Run (cricket), the unit of scoring in cricket
- Run, the unit of scoring in softball
- A variety of events in track and field athletics
- Run (cards), a series of playing cards with consecutive values
- Piste or ski run, a marked trail down a mountain for winter sports
- Run, in sailing, to sail downwind
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Famous quotes containing the words sports and, sports and/or games:
“Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers,
The exuberant voices of music,
Have charm for children but lack nobility; it is bitter earnestness
That makes beauty; the mind
Knows, grown adult.”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“In 1600 the specialization of games and pastimes did not extend beyond infancy; after the age of three or four it decreased and disappeared. From then on the child played the same games as the adult, either with other children or with adults. . . . Conversely, adults used to play games which today only children play.”
—Philippe Ariés (20th century)