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... is a type of:

• Essential component of

• Academic discipline – field of study with academic departments, curricula and degrees; national and international societies; and specialized journals.
  • Branch of the humanities – academic discipline that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences.
• Branch of science – widely-recognized category of specialized expertise within science, and typically embodies its own terminology and nomenclature. Such a field will usually be represented by one or more scientific journals, where peer reviewed research is published. There are many sociology-related scientific journals.
  • A natural science – field that seeks to elucidate the rules that govern the natural world using empirical and scientific methods.
    • A biological science – a branch of biology, which is concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy.
      • A medical specialty – branch of medical science. After completing medical school, physicians or surgeons usually further their medical education in a specific specialty of medicine by completing a multiple year residency to become a medical specialist.
  • A social science – field of academic scholarship that explores aspects of human society.

What is anarchism?

What type of thing is anarchism?

• Ideology –
• Philosophy –
  • Political philosophy –

What is ancient Egypt?

What type of thing is ancient Egypt?

• historical empire –
• ancient culture –

What is ancient Greece?

What type of thing is ancient Greece?

• historical empire –
• ancient culture –

What is ancient India?

What type of thing is ancient India?

• historical empire –
• ancient culture –

What is ancient Rome?

What type of thing is ancient Rome?

• historical empire –
• ancient culture –

What are ants?

What type of thing are ants?

• Insectss –
  • Colonizing insectss –

What is autism?

What type of thing is autism?

Autism is a type of:

• Disability
  • Developmental disability
• Disorder
  • Mental disorder
    • Developmental disorder
      • Neurodevelopmental disorder

What is an automobile?

What type of thing is an automobile?

• Machine –
• Vehicle –

What is ?

What type of thing is baseball?

• Exercise – bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health or wellness.
• Game – structured activity, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more concerned with the expression of ideas. However, the distinction is not clear-cut, and many games are also considered to be work (such as professional sports).
  • Ball game – game played with a ball.
    • Bat-and-ball game – field game played by two teams which alternate between "batting" and "fielding" roles. The fielding team defends, so only the batting team may score, but they have equal chances in both roles.
• Sport – form of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants.
  • Competitive sport – sport in which one or more participants or teams compete against one another. The one that is the most successful in achieving the objective of the game or sport event is the winner.
  • Team sport – sport that involves players working together towards a shared objective.
  • Recreational sport – sport engaged in as a leisure time activity.
  • Spectator sport – sport that is characterized by the presence of spectators, or watchers, at its matches. Spectator sports are a form of entertainment.
  • Professional sport – sport in which the athletes receive payment for their performance.

What is basketball?

What type of thing is basketball?

• Exercise – bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health or wellness.
  • Aerobic exercise – physical exercise that intends to improve the oxygen system. Aerobic means "with oxygen", and refers to the use of oxygen in the body's energy-generating process (the citric acid cycle).
• Game – structured activity, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more concerned with the expression of ideas. However, the distinction is not clear-cut, and many games are also considered to be work (such as professional sports).
  • Ball game – game played with a ball.
• Sport – form of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants.
  • Competitive sport – sport in which one or more participants or teams compete against one another. The one that is the most successful in achieving the objective of the game or sport event is the winner.
  • Team sport – sport that involves players working together towards a shared objective.
  • Recreational sport – sport engaged in as a leisure time activity.
  • Spectator sport – sport that is characterized by the presence of spectators, or watchers, at its matches. Spectator sports are a form of entertainment.
  • Professional sport – sport in which the athletes receive payment for their performance.

What is a bicycle?

What type of thing is a bicycle?

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What is biochemistry?

What type of thing is biochemistry?

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What is biology?

What type of thing is biology?

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What is biophysics?

What type of thing is biophysics?

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What are birds?

What type of thing are birds?

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What is botony?

What type of thing is botany?

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What is business?

What type of thing is business?

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What are canoeing and kayaking?

What type of things are canoeing and kayaking?

File:Kayaking on Dove Lake, Tasmania

Canoeing and kayaking can each be described as:

• Exercise – any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health or wellness.
  • Aerobic exercise – physical exercise that intends to improve the oxygen system. Aerobic means "with oxygen", and refers to the use of oxygen in the body's energy-generating process (the citric acid cycle).
• Recreation – an activity of leisure, leisure being discretionary time.
  • Outdoor recreation –
• Sport – an organized, competitive, entertaining, and skillful physical activity requiring commitment, strategy, and fair play, in which a winner can be defined by objective means.
• Transport – the movement of people and goods from one location to another.
  • Boating – travel or transport by boat; or the recreational use of a boat (whether powerboats, sailboats, or man-powered vessels such as rowing and paddle boats) focused on the travel itself or on sports activities, such as fishing.
    • Watercraft paddling – the act of manually propelling and steering a small boat in the water using a blade that is joined to a shaft, known as a paddle. Not to be confused with watercraft rowing.
  • Travel – the movement of people between relatively distant geographical locations for any purpose and any duration, with or without any additional means of transport.

What is chess?

What type of thing is chess?

Chess is a type of:

• Game – structured playing, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more often an expression of aesthetic or ideological elements. However, the distinction is not clear-cut, and many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator sports/games) or art (such as jigsaw puzzles or games involving an artistic layout such as Mahjong, solitaire, or some video games).
  • Board game – game in which counters or pieces are placed, removed, or moved on a premarked surface or "board" according to a set of rules. Games may be based on pure strategy, chance or a mixture of the two and usually have a goal which a player aims to achieve.
  • Strategy game – game (e.g. computer, video or board game) in which the players' uncoerced, and often autonomous decision-making skills have a high significance in determining the outcome. Almost all strategy games require internal decision tree style thinking, and typically very high situation awareness.
  • Two-player game – a game played by just two players, usually against each other.
• Sport – an organized, competitive, entertaining, and skillful activity requiring commitment, strategy, and fair play, in which a winner can be defined by objective means. It is governed by a set of rules or customs. Chess is recognized as a sport by the International Olympic Committee.
  • Mind sport – a game where the outcome is determined mainly by mental skill, rather than by pure chance.

What is chocolate?

What type of thing is chocolate?

Chocolate is a type of:

• Food – substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body, ingested by an organism and assimilated by the organism's cells in an effort to produce energy, maintain life, and/or stimulate growth.
  • Confectionery – the set of food items that are rich in sugar, any one or type of which is called a confection. Modern usage may include substances rich in artificial sweeteners as well.
    • Candy – confection made from a concentrated solution of sugar in water, to which flavorings and colorants are added. Candies come in numerous colors and varieties and have a long history in popular culture.
  • Ingredient – substance that forms part of a mixture (in a general sense). For example, in cooking, recipes specify which ingredients are used to prepare a specific dish. Chocolate is often used as an ingredient in desert items, such as cakes and cookies.

What is classical architecture?

What type of thing is classical architecture?

Classical architecture is a type of:

• a form of architecture – both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.
  • Architectural style – classification of architecture in terms of the use of form, techniques, materials, time period, region and other stylistic influences.
• a form of classicism – high regard in the arts for classical antiquity, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate.
  • Classicism in architecture – places emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry and the regularity of parts as they are demonstrated in the architecture of Classical antiquity and in particular, the architecture of Ancient Rome, of which many examples remained.

What is cricket?

What type of thing is cricket?

Main article: Cricket

Cricket is a type of:

• Exercise – bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health or wellness.
• Game – structured activity, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more concerned with the expression of ideas. However, the distinction is not clear-cut, and many games are also considered to be work (such as professional sports).
  • Ball game – game played with a ball.
    • Bat-and-ball game – field game played by two teams which alternate between "batting" and "fielding" roles. The fielding team defends, so only the batting team may score, but they have equal chances in both roles.
• Sport – form of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants.
  • Competitive sport – sport in which one or more participants or teams compete against one another. The one that is the most successful in achieving the objective of the game or sport event is the winner.
  • Team sport – sport that involves players working together towards a shared objective.
  • Recreational sport – sport engaged in as a leisure time activity.
  • Spectator sport – sport that is characterized by the presence of spectators, or watchers, at its matches. Spectator sports are a form of entertainment.
  • Professional sport – sport in which the athletes receive payment for their performance.

What is dance?

What type of thing is dance?

Dance is a type of:

• Exercise – bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health and wellness.
• Human behavior –
  • Motion – change in position of something over time.
  • Art – an art is a creative endeavor or discipline.
    • Performing art –
  • Hobby – regular activity or interest that is undertaken for pleasure, typically done during one's leisure time.
  • Recreation – leisure time activity.

What is drawing?

What type of thing is drawing?

Drawing can be described as:

• an art –
  • a visual art –
• an avocation –
• a vocation –

A drawing can be described as:

• Art –
  • a work of art –
    • an illustration –

What is diabetes?

What type of thing is diabetes?

• Disease –

What is domestic violence?

What type of thing is domestic violence?

• Problem –
• Crime –
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What is exercise?

What type of thing is exercise?

• Essential component of self-care
• Essential activity of General Fitness Training
• Essential for maintaining good health

What is ?

What type of thing is a guitar?

A guitar is a type of:

• Musical instrument
  • Plucked string instrument

What is ?

What type of thing is Middle-earth?

Middle-earth can be described as:

• Fiction – form of narrative which deals, in part or in whole, with events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary and invented by its author(s). Although fiction often describes a major branch of literary work, it is also applied to theatrical, cinematic, and musical work.
  • Genre fiction
    • Speculative fiction
      • Fantasy fiction
        • High fantasy fiction
          • a fantasy world
  • a fictional setting
    • a fictional universe
      • a constructed world
        • a fantasy world
• Intellectual property
  • a media franchise

What is ?

=What is a motorcycle?

• Legal definition of motorcycle – a powered two-wheel motor vehicle. Most countries distinguish between mopeds up to 49 cc (scooters do not count as a separate category) and the more powerful, larger, vehicles known as motorcycles. Many jurisdictions include some forms of three-wheelers as motorcycles.
• A motorcycle is a type of:
  • a component of transport
    • a component of a mode of transport
      • a component of road transport
        • a type of vehicle
          • a type of motor vehicle
  • a type of machine
  • Sports equipment

What is ?

What is poetry?

• Poetry – a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities, in addition to, or instead of, its apparent meaning.

What is ?

What type of thing is poetry?

• Literature –

What is ?

What type of thing is psychiatry?

Psychiatry is a type of:

• Academic discipline – field of study with academic departments, curricula and degrees; national and international societies; and specialized journals.
• Scientific field (a branch of science) – widely-recognized category of specialized expertise within science, and typically embodies its own terminology and nomenclature. Such a field will usually be represented by one or more scientific journals, where peer reviewed research is published.
  • A natural science – field that seeks to elucidate the rules that govern the natural world using empirical and scientific methods.
    • A biological science – a branch of biology, which is concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy.
      • A medical specialty – branch of medical science. After completing medical school, physicians or surgeons usually further their medical education in a specific specialty of medicine by completing a multiple year residency to become a medical specialist.

What is ?

What type of thing is running?

Running can be described as:

• Exercise
  • Aerobic exercise
• A sport
  • A component of athletics
  • Individual sport
  • Team sport (see relay race)
• A form of travel
  • Animal locomotion
    • Terrestrial locomotion

What is ?

What type of thing is science fiction?

Science fiction is a type of:

• Fiction – form of narrative which deals, in part or in whole, with events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary and invented by its author(s). Although fiction often describes a major branch of literary work, it is also applied to theatrical, cinematic, and musical work.
  • Genre fiction –
  • Speculative fiction –
• Genre – science fiction is a genre of fiction.

What is ?

What type of thing is tennis?

• Exercise – bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health or wellness.
  • Aerobic exercise – physical exercise that intends to improve the oxygen system. Aerobic means "with oxygen", and refers to the use of oxygen in the body's energy-generating process (the citric acid cycle).
• Game – structured activity, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more concerned with the expression of ideas. However, the distinction is not clear-cut, and many games are also considered to be work (such as professional sports).
  • Ball game – a game played with a ball. There are many kinds of ball games, racquet-and-ball games being just one category of them.
• Sport – form of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants.
  • Racquet sport – a sport in which players use racquets (or rackets) to hit a ball or other object.
  • One-on-one sport –
  • Competitive sport – sport in which one or more participants or teams compete against one another. The one that is the most successful in achieving the objective of the game or sport event is the winner.
  • Team sport – sport that involves players working together towards a shared objective.
  • Recreational sport – sport engaged in as a leisure time activity.
  • Spectator sport – sport that is characterized by the presence of spectators, or watchers, at its matches. Spectator sports are a form of entertainment.
  • Professional sport – sport in which the athletes receive payment for their performance.

What is ?

What type of thing is the psychiatric survivors movement?

• The psychiatric survivors movement is a type of:
  • Political movement
    • A human rights movement
      • Part of the disability rights movement
• Psychiatric survivors as a group can be described as:
  • Advocacy group
  • Community
  • Special interest group

What is ?

What type of thing is a video game?

A video game is a type of:

• Art –
  • Computer art –
  • Interactive art –
• Game –
  • Electronic game –

What is ?

What type of thing is Wikipedia?

Wikipedia is a type of:

• Reference work – compendium of information, usually of a specific type, compiled in a book for ease of reference. That is, the information is intended to be quickly found when needed. Reference works are usually referred to for particular pieces of information, rather than read beginning to end. The writing style used in these works is informative; the authors avoid use of the first person, and emphasize facts.
  • Encyclopedia – compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.
    • Internet encyclopedia project (online encyclopedia) – large database of useful information, accessible via the World Wide Web.
• Website – collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet address known as a Uniform Resource Locator. All publicly accessible websites collectively constitute the World Wide Web.
  • Wiki – website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often developed and used collaboratively by multiple users. Examples include community websites, corporate intranets, knowledge management systems, and note services. The software can also be used for personal notetaking.
• Community – group of interacting people with social cohesion, who may share common values.
  • Community of action – community in which participants endeavor collaboratively to bring about change.
  • Community of interest – community of people who share a common interest or passion. These people exchange ideas and thoughts about the given passion, but may know (or care) little about each other outside of this area. The common interest on Wikipedia is knowledge.
  • Community of purpose – community that serves a functional need, smoothing the path of the member for a limited period surrounding a given activity. For example, researching a topic on Wikipedia.org, buying a car on autobytel.com, or antique collectors on icollector.com or individual.
  • Virtual community – social network of individuals who interact through specific media, potentially crossing geographical and political boundaries in order to pursue mutual interests or goals.
    • Online community – virtual community that exists online and whose members enable its existence through taking part in membership ritual. An online community can take the form of an information system where anyone can post content, such as a Bulletin board system or one where only a restricted number of people can initiate posts, such as Weblogs.
      • Wiki community – users, especially the editors, of a particular wiki.