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Sport as leisure can be developed by switching from one individual and unorganized form by a super-organized, to accommodate the needs of mankind in generally. As a cultural being, the man is passing over time through the transformation from a biological product to one socio-cultural product. As meaning, the man can discover the cultural symbolic value of his body, a civilized beings by seeking of the beauty of body. Functions of sport as leisure are perhaps ephemeral, but as far as providing economic and technical activity, a social and aesthetic, the sport as leisure has to be regarded as a necessary utility. From the history of sports we can infer from the ancient spirit the eternal and creative spirit. Any sports in the free-time is involving many social interactions. Authority of the own bodies in the public space will be a rematch of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sport is now a matter of elite.

Keywords: leisure, sport history, history of mentalities