Oh my goodness. You guys are so literal. Athletics in today's current society is a pass time. It is defined as recreation. Just like painting, dancing, hiking, etc.
I get it men you get to have all the fun because you didn't commit the first sin in the Garden of Eden.
I bet you are the same men who think the marital act should be done with absolutely no pleasure. Except by biology the man gets pleasure or the act doesn't happen. So you puritan men enjoy being alone or married and miserable.

(Normally I would not post this because of human respect, but I have been told not worry about that anymore)