Abstract: As a unique leisure experience in some tourist areas, sport tourism is still a relatively new topic in the whole field of tourism research.The concept definition and type division of sport tourism is reviewed from multi-dimensional perspectives.It can be seen that the basic attributes of sport tourism are rooted in the history of human evolution, such as play, game, competition, entertainment and other forms of leisure, which is also a core issue in sport tourism research.Researchers in previous studies mostly started with such external effects as economy, management, society and culture.But with the gradually deepening of sport tourism research, scholars pay more attention to the intrinsic nature of the issues like the subjectivity of sport tourist experience and process of the activity.By the theories of tourist gaze, tourism authenticity, performance, etc., a turn to embody theory is illustrated in the sense of ontology, which has established a fundamental proposition "sport tourism is an embodied experience of body and mind", paving a way of the physical and mental experience research of sport tourists' movement perception and ontological perception.