Abstract
The article examines the ideas about sports practices in different historical epochs, provides a brief analysis of the forms of physical activity that predate the modern concept of sports. The author suggests that in modern society, sport has acquired a new status of a socio-cultural institution that performs certain specific functions aimed at maintaining the existing socio-cultural structure, such as maintaining and reproducing human corporeality as an axiological, ethical and aesthetic unit; normalization and demilitarization of social life; entertainment and leisure and democratization.
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