This paper presents results of a research whose aim was to investigate sport by the Spanish Philosopher José Ortega y Gasset. The sources are the twelve volumes of his Complete Writings. The results are exposed by three conceptual keys, and suggest that sport, linked to technique and youth, parts of the same reflection by Ortega, can be understood as a metaphor of the non utilitarian character of human life, an important theme of Ortega's Philosophy. The Avant Gard character of Ortega's Analysis about the Expansion of Sport in the first decades of Twentieth Century is underlined, as well as youth as philosophical and sociological subject.
Sport; Philosophical Antropology; Ortega y Gasset; José