Sports and Games

All schools and collages organize extra – curricular activities like plays  , drama ,debates , sports and games for their students . Extra curricular activities are those activities which are out side the regular course of studies. These activities are good and healthy for the mind and the body. Mere literary and academic life is not necessary . The students should know the realities of life as they exist. The ideal of a good and perfect life is to have a sound mind in a sound body. Body and mind should work their best and they cannot do their best unless both are in a good order.

The proper end of games is bodily health and physical fitness. Greeks were the earliest people who introduced the marathon race and many other sports. In the past, hunting and fishing used to be mainly utilitarian in purpose. These sports were used to get food . With the Greek Civilization, Sports came to be looked upon as a means of building up the body and mind. The Greek excelled in shaping the human body. The famous Olympic Games held every fourth are a proof of the importance of sports and exercises  .

Sports and athletics are considered an essential feature of human activity .While give sports give shape and strength to the body they also instill the spirit of discipline and team work. The discipline that is gained in games makes for a life of cooperation and team work which in turn are important in society and in nation building.

Apart from making the body, limbs and muscles strong, games and sports teach how to use the energy in the right way. There are different kinds of games for different age groups. Children play running, hide and seek or they play  on swings, merry go rounds or slides. The school going children have P.T. classes in which they are taught easy exercise to keep the young bodies flexible.

Young boys play basketball and volley-ball. Girls paly netball which is played on the school courts . These games make the body muscles strong.

Some of these games and sports are played at national level. Some players qualify to play at international level.

One thing must be kept in mind that spirit of games and sports is not to win only. Games also teach us practice patience, tolerance, honesty, dignity, and other moral values.