Explore by Adaptive Sport
Inclusive and adaptive sport — understanding, forms, adaptation and getting involved.
What this is
Adaptive sport is the inclusive dimension: what adaptive and para sport are, the forms they take, how activities are adapted, and how to get involved — respectfully and factually.
Why it matters
Sport is for everyone. Making adaptive sport a first-class exploration dimension surfaces an authoritative, inclusive area of the platform and connects it to the wider graph.
How to explore it
Start from understanding what adaptive sport is, move through its forms and adaptations, then into getting involved and the sports connected to each topic.
Understanding adaptive sport
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Adaptive sports
- Adaptive sportsSport adjusted in its equipment, rules or format so that people with disabilities can take part, compete and enjoy it.
- Para sportsThe competitive branch of adaptive sport, where athletes with disabilities train and compete, often within organised classification systems.
- Inclusive sportsSport designed or delivered so that disabled and non-disabled people can play together, side by side, in the same activity.
- Accessibility in sportHow sport removes barriers — physical, sensory, social and informational — so that disabled people can take part on equal terms.
- Disability and sportAn overview of how disabled people take part in sport — for health, enjoyment, community and competition — and the ideas that support inclusion.
Glossary
Practice & sessions
Sports science
- The overload principleThe idea that the body adapts to demands greater than it is used to — the foundation of why training works.
- Recovery and adaptationThe idea that the body adapts during recovery, not during the effort itself — which is why rest is treated as part of training rather than a break from it.
- Training adaptationThe process by which the body changes in response to repeated training — the underlying reason exercise makes you fitter, stronger or more skilful over time.
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- 2026-07-13
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