Fair Play
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Fair Play or Fairplay usually refers to Sportsmanship
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Sportsmanship
Sportsmanship is an aspiration or ethos that a sport or activity will be enjoyed for its own sake, with proper consideration for fairness, ethics, respect, and a sense of fellowship with one's competitors...
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It may also refer to:
- Fair and unfair playFair and unfair playLaw 42 of the laws of the sport of cricket covers fair and unfair play. This law has developed and expanded over time as various incidents of real life unfair play have been legislated against....
, in cricket - The Fair Play for Cuba CommitteeFair Play for Cuba CommitteeThe Fair Play for Cuba Committee was an activist group set up in New York in April 1960. The FPCC's purpose was to provide grassroots support for the Cuban Revolution against attacks by the United States government, once Fidel Castro began openly admitting his commitment to Marxism and began the...
, an activist group in the United States early in 1960 - Fairplay IndexFairplay IndexThe Fairplay Index is used in the Super League and Co-operative Championship rugby league competitions as a measure to determine the fairest team over the regular season. The team with the lowest points total wins...
, a ranking system used by the Super League and Rugby League Championship rugby league competitions to determine the fairest team - Fair Play MenFair Play MenThe Fair Play Men were illegal settlers who established their own system of self-rule from 1773 to 1785 in the West Branch Susquehanna River valley of Pennsylvania in what is now the United States. Because they settled in territory claimed by Native Americans, they had no recourse to the...
, squatters who established their own system of self-rule from 1773 to 1785 in what became Pennsylvania - FIFA Fair Play Trophy, the award given to the team with the cleanest disciplinary record during the finals of the FIFA World CupFIFA World CupThe FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body...
- FIFA Fair Play AwardFIFA Fair Play AwardThe FIFA Fair Play Award is a FIFA recognition of good or sporting behaviour or other actions by people or bodies involved in :association football around the world. First awarded in 1987, it has been presented to individuals , teams, fans, spectators, football associations/federations and even...
- not to be confused with the above, a formal recognition of good sportsmanship in football (soccer)Football (soccer)Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
in general - FIFA Fair Play campaign, a campaign which aims to increase sportsmanship as well as prevent discrimination in the game of football.
- UEFA Fair Play rankingUEFA Fair Play rankingThe UEFA Fair Play ranking has been used by UEFA since 1995 to grant three berths for the first qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League.-Current club qualification system:...
, a ranking system used by Union of European Football Associations
Place names
In the United States:
- Fair Play, CaliforniaFair Play, CaliforniaFair Play is an unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California. It is located northeast of Aukum, at an elevation of 2329 feet .A post office was operated at Fair Play from 1860 to 1944....
- Fair Play AVAFair Play AVAThe Fair Play AVA is an American Viticultural Area in El Dorado County, California, USA. It is entirely contained within the boundaries of the El Dorado AVA and the Sierra Foothills AVA. The boundaries of the Fair Play AVA include rolling hills at elevations between and above sea level, making...
, California wine region in El Dorado County
- Fair Play AVA
- Fair Play, MissouriFair Play, MissouriFair Play is a city in Polk County, Missouri, United States. The population was 457 at the 2009 census. It is part of the Springfield, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Fair Play is located at ....
- Fair Play, South CarolinaFair Play, South CarolinaFair Play is a Census-designated place located in the Northwestern corner of the U.S. State of South Carolina. The CDP is located mostly in southern Oconee County, but with a portion located in Anderson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, the population was 687. The community is...
- Fair Play, WisconsinFair Play, WisconsinFair Play is an unincorporated community located in the town of Jamestown in Grant County, Wisconsin, United States.-Notes:...
- Fairplay, ColoradoFairplay, ColoradoThe Town of Fairplay is a statutory town that is the county seat and the most populous town of Park County, Colorado, United States. Fairplay is located in South Park at an elevation of . The town is the fifth-highest incorporated place in the State of Colorado. The population was 610 at the...
- Fairplay, KentuckyFairplay, KentuckyFairplay is an unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky, United States. Its elevation is 984 feet ....
- Fairplay, MarylandFairplay, MarylandFairplay is an unincorporated community not considered as a census-designated place in Washington County, Maryland, United States. It is sometimes recognized along with neighboring Tilghmanton as Fairplay-Tilghmanton; the two communities share a post office as well as a fire company...
Media
- Fair Play (film), a French film by Lionel BailliuLionel BailliuLionel Bailliu is a filmmaker best known for writing and directing his Academy Award-nominated 2002 film Squash. According to the Internet Movie Database, Bailliu also wrote four episodes of the French T.V. series Élodie Bradford, a show he created in 2004...
released in 2005 - Fairplay (magazine), a weekly shipping news magazine
- Fair Play (novel)Fair Play (novel)Fair Play is a novel by Finnish author Tove Jansson, first published in 1989.-Plot:The novel portrays the close friendship between two women doing artistic work, Jonna and Mari, who live in separate apartments in the same house. They are in many ways quite different, but maybe because of this they...
, English title of Finnish author Tove Jansson's novel Rent spel
Other uses
- FairPlayFairPlayFairPlay is a digital rights management technology created by Apple Inc., based on technology created by the company Veridisc. FairPlay is built into the QuickTime multimedia software and used by the iPhone, iPod, iPad, Apple TV, iTunes, and iTunes Store and the App Store. Formerly, all songs in...
, a Digital Rights Management (DRM) system from Apple Inc. - Fair Play (horse)Fair Play (horse)Fair Play was an American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was successful on the track, but even more so as a sire.His grandsire was Spendthrift, whose grandsire was the English Triple Crown champion West Australian....
, American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse - Fair Play ScoreboardsFair Play ScoreboardsFair Play is a company that manufactures scoreboards, video boards, and electronic displays. Fair Play is a subsidiary of Trans-Lux electronic displays.-History:...
, a scoreboard company that manufactures electronic displays, video boards, and scoreboards - Jon DaltonJon DaltonJohn Dalton, also known as Jonny Fairplay , is a reality TV participant and former art consultant from Danville, Virginia. He came in third place as a competitor on the reality TV show Survivor: Pearl Islands...
, also known as Jonny Fairplay, a participant on the reality TV show Survivor: Pearl Islands - Chwarae TegChwarae TegChwarae Teg - is a United Kingdom based charity working in Wales to support the economic development of women as well as working with businesses and organisations to develop and improve working practices.- History :...
, Welsh for Fair Play and a charity organisation in WalesWalesWales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...