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Sports vs Fitness - What's the difference?

sports | fitness |

As nouns the difference between sports and fitness

is that sports is plural of lang=en while fitness is the condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate.

As a verb sports

is third-person singular of sport.

sports

English

(wikipedia sports)

Noun

(head)

    • Derived terms

    (sport plural) * air sports * disabled sports * parasports * sportscaster * water sports * watersports * winter sports

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sport)
  • (Reductive) To participate in sports; typically used by a person with little interest in the subject to derisively elide details of the activity in question. ("There's a lot of sportsing happening in Brazil this summer", said of the 2014 FIFA World Cup).

    • Anagrams

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    fitness

    English

    (Physical fitness)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate.
  • The cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=April 11 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Carroll has been edging slowly towards full fitness after his expensive arrival from Newcastle United and his partnership with £23m Luis Suarez showed rich promise as Liverpool controlled affairs from start to finish.}}
  • (UK, slang) The condition of being attractive, fanciable or beautiful.

    • Synonyms

    * beauty, health * (condition of being suitable) strength, suitability, competence, capability * (condition of being attractive) see

    Antonyms

    * flab, sloth * (ability to perform) weakness

    Anagrams

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