Fair play or Fairplay usually refers to
sportsmanship
Sportsmanship is an aspiration or ethos that a sport, or activity will be enjoyed for its own sake. This is with proper consideration for fairness, ethics, respect, and a sense of fellowship with one's competitors. A "sore loser" refers to o ...
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Fair play or Fairplay may also refer to:
Media
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''Fair Play'' (1925 film), an American silent film
* ''Fair Play'', a 1972 TV movie starring
Paul Ford
Paul Ford Weaver (November 2, 1901 – April 12, 1976) was an American character actor who came to specialize in authority figures whose ineptitude and pompous demeanor were played for comic effect, notably as Mayor Shinn in ''The Music Man'' (1 ...
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''Fair Play'' (2014 film), a Czech drama
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''Fairplay'' (magazine), a shipping news publication
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''Fair Play'' (novel) (''Rent spel''), by Finnish author Tove Jansson
Sports
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Fair and unfair play
Law 41 of the Laws of Cricket covers unfair play. This law has developed and expanded over time as various incidents of real life unfair play have been legislated against.
The first section of Law 41 makes clear that the captains of the two te ...
, in cricket
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Fairplay Index
The Fair Play 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. As a result of sponsorship from ...
, a ranking system in rugby
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FIFA Fair Play campaign, a program to increase sportsmanship in association football
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FIFA Fair Play Trophy (disambiguation), a World Cup association football Finals award given for sportsmanship
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FIFA Fair Play Award
The FIFA Fair Play Award is a FIFA recognition of exemplary behaviour that promotes the spirit of fair play and compassion in :association football around the world. First awarded in 1987, it has been presented to individuals (including post ...
, a formal recognition of good sportsmanship in association football in general
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UEFA Fair Play ranking
The UEFA Respect Fair Play ranking was used by UEFA from 1995 to the 2015–16 season to grant three berths for the first qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League. Since that time it has granted a monetary prize to winning associations.
Qualific ...
, a ranking system used by the Union of European Football Associations
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UEFA Financial Fair Play Regulations
The UEFA Financial Fair Play Regulations (FFP) are a set of regulations established to prevent professional football clubs spending more than they earn in the pursuit of success, and in doing so not getting into financial problems which might t ...
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Fair Play (horse)
Fair Play (April 1, 1905 – December 17, 1929) was an American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was successful on the track, but even more so when retired to stud. He is best known as the sire of Man o' War, widely considered one of the greate ...
, an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse
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KK Fair Play, a defunct basketball club in Serbia
United States place names
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Fair Play, California
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Fair Play AVA, a wine region
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Fairplay, Colorado
The historic Town of Fairplay is the Statutory Town that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Park County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 724 at the 2020 United States Census. Fairplay is located in Sout ...
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Fairplay, Kentucky
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Fairplay, Maryland
Fairplay is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Washington County, Maryland, United States. Its population was 580 as of the 2010 census. It is sometimes recognized, along with neighboring Tilghmanton, as Fairplay-T ...
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Fair Play, Missouri
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Fair Play, New Jersey
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Fairplay, Ohio
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Fairplay, Pennsylvania
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Fair Play, South Carolina
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Fair Play, Texas
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Fair Play, Wisconsin
Other uses
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Fair Play for Cuba Committee The Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) was an activist group set up in New York City by Robert Taber in April 1960.
History
The FPCC's purpose was to provide grassroots support for the Cuban Revolution against attacks by the United States gove ...
, a 1960s United States activist group
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Fair Play Men
The Fair Play Men were illegal settlers (squatters) 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 cla ...
, 18th century Pennsylvania area squatters
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FairPlay
FairPlay is a digital rights management (DRM) technology developed by Apple Inc. It is built into the MP4 multimedia file format as an encrypted AAC audio layer, and was used until April 2009 by the company to protect copyrighted works sold ...
, a digital rights management system from Apple Inc.
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Jonny Fairplay
Jonny Fairplay (born Jon Dalton, March 11, 1974) is an American former art consultant, professional wrestler, and reality television personality. He has twice competed on the reality competition TV show '' Survivor'', coming in third place on the ...
(Jon Dalton, born 1974), participant on the reality TV show ''Survivor: Pearl Islands''
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Chwarae Teg (Welsh for ''fair play''), a charity organisation in Wales
* "Fair Play", the slogan on the costumes of the DC Comics superheroes
Mister Terrific
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Operation Fair Play
Operation Fair Play was the code name for the 5 July 1977 coup by Pakistan Chief of Army Staff General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, overthrowing the government of Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. The coup itself was bloodless, and was preceded by ...
, 1977 coup in Pakistan
See also
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Playfair (disambiguation)
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