The purpose of this study was to examine the basis of cultural existence of sport. As the first step, the structural characteristics of culture were extracted from E. Cassirer's analysis of culture as follows:
·The function of human spirit had worked on the creation of particular image-worlds of cultural forms. It meant that cultural forms enjoyed equal rank as products of the human spirit.
·The cultural forms were recognized as roads by which the spirit proceeded toward its objectivization, i. e., its self-revelation.
·Each cultural form created a definite sensuous substratum which constituted the image-world. Only through the sensuous substratum, the ideational content was disclosed as the content of spirit. Through this expressional function, each cultural form existed as a particular image-world not as to consist in the sensuously tangible form.
As a next required step, sport was examined if the structural characteristics of culture could be found in the form. The movement form was recognized as the sensuous substratum of sport. To see if any ideational content was disclosed through movement form, three moments of sport structure, i. e., the physical moment, the intellectual moment, and the aesthetic moment, were used as analytic frameworks. From this analysis, expressions of the ideational contents through the movement forms were recognized within each of three moments. That meant sport existed as the particular image-world not as to consist in the sensuously tangible form. By those findings, it came to the conclusion that sport had the identical structural characteristics found in other cultural forms and this structural relation could be recognized as the basis of cultural existence of sport.

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