Difference between game and sport

[Swe Zin Oo]

English Grammar Tests, Elementary Level

ESL/EFL Test #41 "Basic American English", question 8

Who won the soccer .........?

(a) sport
(b) gain
(c) game
(d) throw

English Grammar Tests, Elementary Level

ESL/EFL Test #41 "Basic American English", answer 8

Who won the soccer game?

Correct answer: (c) game

Your answer was: incorrect
Who won the soccer sport?
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I thought, soccer is a kind of sport and game is for playing games. Now, I confuse between game and sport. Could you please explain me why we should put game here?

Swe Zin Oo

[Nola]

Hi Swe Zin Oo,
The word sport is more general in the usage than the word game. meaningly, the sport has lots of games like the athletic games but not all the games are sports. e.g the chess is a game but we can't call it a kind of sport.

Hope this helps,
Nola