Abstract: In the context of the increasing emphasis on embodied cognition in sport disciplin, both literature review and historical analysis are used to correct the genealogy of embodied cognition. It is found that researchers have reinterpreted the knowledge elements by reorienting the process of cognition occurrence, formation and development, providing an important ideological foundation and resource for the construction of autonomous knowledge in the sport discipline to "go back to sports itself". It is held that the discipline is the most holistic cognitive science with motor behavior and skill as its core, the discipline that uses contextualized para-language and non-statement language as the basic vocabulary of knowledge, and the discipline with the most literacy-oriented qualities. The autonomous knowledge structure in this discipline is constructed on the basis of Gentner's cognitive science hexagonal model and Goldman's three basic elements of embodied cognition. From this structure, it is argued, in turn, the unique contribution to cognitive science made by knowledge of sport discipline. That is, sport training and competition provide the most specific object of study for cognitive science research, physical education provides a better approach to embodied moral and aesthetic education, and the specific sport knowledge types add new perspectives and methods to the theory of embodied knowledge.