This section is from the book "The Home Cyclopedia Of General Information", by Charles Morris. Also available from Amazon: Home Cyclopedia of Necessary Knowledge.
[AS.] Sport of any kind ; animals kept or hunted for sport. In Europe game includes grouse, black game, pheasants, partridges, and hares, ptarmigans, quails and larger game as the moose and wild boar. In the United States game includes a great variety of animals. These are rarely kept in enclosures for sport, as in Britain, but they are protected from indiscriminate slaughter by game laws, confining hunters to fixed seasons and means of capture.
 
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