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The purpose of this paper is to clarify an educational meaning of recreation sport.
In this paper, recreation sport is defined as a specific concept of sport. Although we can do sports competitively or for recreation (even if we do recreation sport), we can tell recreation sport from (normal) sport as a different type of sport.
As sports in general aim at advancement through players' competition for victory, experts necessarily lead in a game, and consequently beginners tend to be in a passive position. On the other hand, as recreation sports aim at popularization by stressing on participants' pleasure in the process of pursuing victory, beginners are guaranteed to enjoy games and experts find out fun in promoting beginners' play rather than their own play.
Recently, the fact that children do not have good sociality because of their lack of communication skill is becoming a serious problem. Then, teaching materials for improvement in communication skills are called for in school.
Consequently, recreation sports are expected to be effective teaching materials as such by promoting interrelationship between beginners and experts to enjoy games.
