disabled sports / disability sports
English translation: disabled sports
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| 01:00 May 27, 2002 |
| English language (monolingual) [PRO] Social Sciences - Sports / Fitness / Recreation | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Fuad Yahya | ||||||
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| 4 +8 | disabled sports |
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| 4 +1 | disabled sports OR adaptive sports |
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| 4 | no - there is no difference |
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| 3 | neither |
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9 mins confidence: 
neither Explanation: disabled sports sounds like sports that have been disabled in some way. disability sports might be closed to what you want, but I have never heard the term in the USA. We do have something called the 'Special Olympics' where contestants with various disabilities compete. You might look up that for the USA. sports for competitors with disabilities? Good luck. |
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11 mins confidence:
no - there is no difference Explanation: There is no difference between disabled and disability sports. In the US, we have the "special olympics" for the disabled. |
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14 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1disabled sports OR adaptive sports Explanation: Much to my surprise, I found 9800 hits for the phrase "disable sports" on Google. I agree with JC that the term sound rather odd, but evidently it is used. So is the more genteel-sounding "adaptive sports" -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2002-05-27 01:15:45 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Ooops- typo that should be \"disable sports\" not \"disable sports\"! -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2002-05-27 01:17:29 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Example: What is Disabled Sports USA? A national nonprofit, 501(c)(3), organization established in 1967 by disabled Vietnam veterans to serve the war injured. DS/USA now offers nationwide sports rehabilitation programs to anyone with a permanent physical disability. Activities include winter skiing, water sports, summer and winter competitions, fitness and special sports events. Participants include those with visual impairments, amputations, spinal cord injury, dwarfism, multiple sclerosis, head injury, cerebral palsy, and other neuromuscular and orthopedic conditions. http://www.dsusa.org/about.htm -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2002-05-27 01:22:19 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- DOUBLE TYPO!! I mean 9800 hits for DISABLED SPORTS. I am beginning to suspect that my \"d\" is sticking on the keyboard. |
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +8
peer agreement (net): +8disabled sports Explanation: Sports for the disabled: That would be the phrasing of choice for those of us who are simply not familiar enough with the phrase "disabled sports" and think it odd. But come to think of it, a one-hand piano concerto is just as odd (neither a piano nor a piano concerto has hands; the reference is to the pianist). Expressions like these abound in English: - Adult movies (movies for adults; the movies themselves have no puberty stage) - handicapped parking (parking for the handicapped; the parking itself is not handicapped) and so on. Fuad -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2002-05-27 05:18:39 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Eva: This note is a comment on your comment about the Special Olympics. According to SpecialOlyipics.org, \"Special Olympics is an international organization dedicated to empowering individuals with mental retardation to become physically fit, productive and respected members of society through sports training and competition. Special Olympics offers children and adults with mental retardation year-round training and competition in 26 Olympic-type summer and winter sports. \" http://www.specialolympics.org/about_special_olympics/index.... |
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