Gale Sports and Recreation Thesaurus

The Gale Sports and Recreation Thesaurus is a subset of the master Gale Social Sciences Thesaurus in the narrower domain of specific sports, sporting events, hobbies, and other recreational activities, whether engaged in by individuals or groups, amateurs, or professionals, for simple pleasure or competitive success. Also covered is the business of sports. Examples of subject descriptors in this thesaurus include sprinting, long-distance running races, arena football, windsurfing, safaris, bird watching, and stamp collecting. All thesaural relationships (BT/NT, RT, USE/UF) are included, and some terms have scope notes. The thesaurus contains 1,194 preferred terms/concepts (2019) and is continually updated.