Sports Activity
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines sports activity as the physical effort exerted to move the body’s muscles and flexibility. It causes an acceleration of breathing and an accelerating heartbeat, clearly, such as jogging - brisk walking - riding a bicycle at speed - swimming - traditional sports such as football, handball, basketball, and others.
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Individual practicing physical activity:
He is the one who performs and carries out physical activity, starting from the age of 15 years and over. As for the time required to be spent practicing the sporting activity, this matter depends on the practitioner himself and the goal he seeks through the sport he practices.
Because of the need to define a time, based on which is measured that the individual has practiced a sporting activity, a minimum period of 30 minutes per day has been set for most days of the week (five days at least).
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Sports Clubs
They are the clubs with a private and official organization and established in a specific province, name, or neighborhood and officially recognized by the General Authority for Sports and by the federation to which it is affiliated.
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Sports Centers
They are those places that include some multi-purpose closed halls, whose members and visitors can practice many types of sporting activities and are available to individuals, either with a daily entrance fee or with a monthly or annual subscription (private sports centers). It may be a sports center affiliated with a government agency (free or nominal prices). The center may be a single, closed gymnasium in which only one type of sports practiced in the sports centers is practiced.
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Youth and Global Change
Youth is a period of life generally considered to be the stage of transition between childhood and adulthood. The United Nations defines the stage of youth for those between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four. In addition, suppose age is the function that determines the age of youth concerning youth development. In that case, it is assumed that we do not consider youth as a single homogeneous demographic group but rather as multi-diversified subgroups that encompass a broad spectrum of orbits, attitudes, and capabilities. Therefore, in this report, the United Nations definition of youth can be applied flexibly.
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Sport
In the context of development, the definition of sport usually includes a broad and comprehensive spectrum of activities appropriate for population of all ages and abilities, emphasizing sport's positive values. In 2003, the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Sport for Development and Peace defined the sport for development as “all forms of physical activity that contribute to physical fitness, mental well-being and social interaction, such as: for play, entertainment, organized or competitive sports, and local sport and games. “This definition has since been accepted by many proponents "Sport for Development and Peace."
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Private Commercial Sports Club (Sports Complex)
It is a single or multi-purpose private sports facility that is equipped with sports tools and equipment; it may include several stadiums, halls, facilities, buildings, places, or open, closed, or covered spaces, and built adjacent, perpendicular, and integrated, with the same legal standards and specifications for training and official sports competitions.
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Commercial Sports Center
It is a single or multi-purpose private sports facility equipped with sports tools and equipment; it may include several stadiums, halls, facilities, buildings, places, or open or covered spaces with the same legal standards and specifications for training official sports competitions.
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Commercial Sports Academy
It is a private facility in the form of a sports center with a continuous commercial organization; which aims mainly to obtain profit by collecting specific and announced financial fees for providing sports services to members of society, whether they are members of it or reluctant to it to learn basic sports skills in a group or individual games or training to refine them and developing the level of motor performance by playing one or more games.
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Commercial Center for Physical and Mobility Development
It is a private, single, or multi-purpose sports facility that is equipped with sports tools, equipment, and devices with specified standard specifications; it is a continuous commercial organization that aims mainly to obtain profit by collecting specific and announced financial fees in exchange for providing within its specific licensed sports services to members of society wishing to practice and aiming to develop and improve physical development, movement, and physical fitness.
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Sports consultancy for institutions
It is a private commercial activity that mainly aims to obtain profit by collecting specific and announced financial fees or contracted in exchange for providing specialized advice and expressing a technical opinion in the various sports fields related to the development of sports activity to help the beneficiaries and those wishing to obtain technical advice and guidance based on quantitative and qualitative data and specialized scientific studies to solve their problems, overcome the challenges and difficulties they face, and achieve some or all of their institutional goals to improve institutional capacity and effectiveness to achieve competitive advantage and maintain what they have reached.
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Club
Everybody with a continuous organization aiming to carry out a sporting activity prepares the means and provides the services necessary to achieve its goals to benefit all members in all social, promotional, physical, and health aspects, and does not aim primarily to achieve profit.
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