One of the main leisure experiences. Either actively or passively. Every performance, every match won, each championship can be celebrated.
A champion was in the past a 'warrior'. Now we mean with it 'the best'. A camp or duel was a battle between two gamecocks. The strain comes from the Picardy variant campion, the French champion 'warrior in a judicial duel' (1150), or campiun (1080), from the medieval Latin Campio (arena, camp).

Sport is the most important side issue in life. (Kees Jansma)

"What muscle works when I'm boxing with you" ask the professor to the medical student. "My smile muscle, Professor."

After the game with an umbrella in the shower. "I forgot my towel!"
"Look, this woman is so thick and as round as a ball." "No wonder, her husband was shot putter."