Century
Century National organizations developed to standardize guidelines and laws, to rework sporadic challenge matches into systematic league competition, to certify eligibility, and to register results. Peasant girls participated freely within the ball games and footraces of medieval times, and aristocratic women hunted and stored falcons, however middle-class ladies contented themselves with spectatorship. Even so, they have been more lively than their contemporaries in Heian Japan through the eighth to twelfth centuries. The closest to a global settlement on a definition is offered by SportAccord, which is the affiliation for all the biggest international sports federations , and is therefore the de facto representative of international sport. The singular time period "sport" is utilized in most English dialects to describe the general idea (e.g. "kids participating in sport"), with "sports activities" used to explain a number of actions (e.g. "socc