Sentence examples for harmless sports from inspiring English sources
As part of a law passed in 2009, state officials have labeled seemingly harmless sports like wiffle ball, kickball, freeze tag and red rover as potentially dangerous.
Babe happens onto a group of black players and decides to engage them in some harmless, sporting fun.
The tournament eventually degenerated into the carrousel, a kind of equestrian polonaise, and the more harmless sport of tilting at a ring.
It took the Nazis to realise the full propaganda potential of the Olympics, and thanks to them the torch quickly became a symbol more of political willpower than harmless sporting pageantry.
The N.B.A. would seem like a natural and easy place to settle for harmless sporting fun, but unless you're in New York and gripped by Linsanity — the sudden stardom of Jeremy Lin — you are watching a league brimming with anger, marred by injuries (the Clippers Chauncey Billupss being the latest to go down) and play so gruesome that even Charles Barkley is complaining about it.
But for a sport yearning to broaden its reach, this second-annual appeal to a younger generation qualifies as harmless fun.
That, perhaps, is harmless manifestation of sports idolatry.
Neither harmless nor victimless, sports corruption is perpetrated by crooked officials, abusive governments and gangsters, sometimes in concert.
