The competition in sport helps to develop mental and sensitive abilities as well as physical one. With too much emphasis on victory, however, this competitive nature of sport sometimes causes human alienation in our society.
Thus one of the practical tasks of sport education is to resolve the problem of the human alienation. For this purpose, the process of a competition is analyzed to understand the structure of competition in sport. In this paper the competition in sport is defined as one through which participants compete with each other for victory in a sport. It is regarded as human relationship which is observed in a game or contest, being distinguished from competition for ranking purposes, as is often obsereved in sports events, The subject of the analysis was a game or contest named ‘Turn and Run’, which had been developed by the present author and was played by college students during the writer's professional class in physical education.
On the basis of the analysis the present author argued for the two aspects of competition in a game. One is named ‘Competition as a Phenomenon’. This is a realistic process in which participants vie for the characteristics of their physical abilities, expressing and realizing themselves. The other is named ‘Perceptive Competition’, This is a process in which each participant's physical abilities are considered to be the same quality. On that assumption their physical abilities are measured, compared and evaluated in terms of the issue of victory or defeat.
Though victory or defeat is the result of ‘Perceptive Competition’, people cannot see this aspect of the competition directly, believing that individualistic and characteristic physical abilities are immediately responsible for victory or defeat in competition.