Competition

A competition, even competition ( Austrian: competition) or contest is a battle for best performance, particularly for cultural and sporting services. Deferred competitive situations exist in many situations. Consciously created race conditions prevail, particularly in sport, in the cultural sphere is rather spoken of competitions, here there is a real Wettberwerbswesen.

Culture

In the field of culture and cultural industries has competition in more ways than one meaning. On one hand, ideas and realization competitions are targeted (eg urban planning architecture or art competitions ) awarded to place orders or to solve complex most publicly relevant problem. In the cultural field, there is a real competition being. On the other hand an award for special services held in the form of price - ceremonies.

Cultural Awards

Many cultural prizes will be awarded after a competition:

• In literary prizes such as the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize,
• In art prizes such as the Gabriele Münter price,
• Music Competitions for Young Musicians is a good example.
• The same goes for many film awards, theater awards, television awards and radio awards.

Other contexts

Competitions are also in cultural contexts rather than trivial, for advertising purposes on children's birthday parties as sweepstakes or in the form of large staged events. To name indiesem context are particularly beauty contests, art contests, story contests, competitions in bodybuilding, singing competitions such as the Euro Vision Song Contest.

In the hip-hop culture, the staging of competitive situations plays a very big role, analogous to the sport will be held regarding Rap, regarding graffiti, breakdance respect and DJ battles Battles.

Sport as a competition culture

In sports, the competition is a key element. Sport in its present form is mainly a competition culture. Part, the term sport is needed even as a synonym for competition.

The term sport in its original meaning is precisely the special emphasis and the celebration of the competition principle. For the sport in its original sense of the playful and staged competition was a constituent element. In order for the sport and thus sporting competition was initially in contrast to other concepts of the body and movement culture, such as gymnastics and aerobics, or today's fitness movement, which are less concerned Competition ( goes or ), where instead of the stronger the joint training or the experience of the body or the upgrading of the performance or the fun factor are in the foreground. Today, the term sport ( in a wider sense ) includes widely all areas of movement culture, but since the establishment of the concept of sport in the late 19th century has also total the principle of competition in the movement culture gained in importance.

In a sports contest more participants ( their performance in athletes ) compete against each other and compete with each other, a match result is determined. This can be done by a Retiring in preliminary rounds in direct comparison or when a larger amount of participants. The winner then goes in the final of the best in the preliminaries out (see tournament form).

Animal competitions

Competitions also exist with animals as a participant. Here it is often about the speed or combat power. For example, there are dog racing, horse racing, racing pigeon races are or even cockfighting.

The race rider -less horse is no longer used today and was used to before the 18th century also called parade.