When talking about bodily movement, emotional movement and social movements, one applies the same term, ‘movement’, to very different practical, psychological and social relations. This is not accidental. This essay inquires into the connections between these three dimensions, via an analysis of sports in the Nordic countries. In relation to social movements, Nordic sports developed historically from dynamic popular movements. The cases of Denmark, Sweden and Norway reveal very different relations between sports movements (often gymnastic movements) on the one hand and national, political and social movements on the other. In relation to emotional movement, three different ways of identity building can be identified. While elite sport favours competitive identities and oppositional patterns, mass sport stresses social discipline and fitness, and popular festivities and games give rise to emotions of encounter. The third dimension, bodily movement, is examined in a phenomenological, experiential sense. The essay concludes with some questions about how the different dimensions of movement interact.