How do sports differ from recreational activities that require skill? Do sports demand that someone win? At what point do sports become art? skillfully investigates how literature presents sports as a metaphor, a language, and a bodily expression. Rather than focus on Canada’s most famous pastime, contributors examine sports in Canadian literature that are decidedly hockey. From skateboarding and parkour to fly fishing and curling, these essays engage with histories and broader societal understandings through sports on the margin. Interspersed with original reflections by iconic Canadian literary figures, offers fresh, intriguing new ways of reading the body.