re: What is your definition of a sport?

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A sport is a contest which requires physicality and has a definite winner not picked by a judge.

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Any athletic exercise where your opponent can DIRECTLY affect what you do.

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Denote sports.

All sports are competitions, not all competition are sports.

The two primary components of a sport are:
1) Objective Scoring
2) Direct opponent interference

This makes things like Track and Field, Golf, poker, etc. All COMPETITIONS, but they aren't sports. I also would add in a 3rd component and be more strict something like: The physical body exerts the majority of energy consumed during the sport. Or something like that, just to be more clear.

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Cheerleading is what you do at sporting events. It's not a sporting event.

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They have cheerleading competitions. They are highly competitive.

If cheerleading isn't a sport, then figure skating, gymnastics, and diving aren't either. And a few others I'm probably forgetting.

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Did not want to be stuck at the bottom...


Sports involve athletic movements and have an objective measurement to decide who wins and loses. Races are sports, golf is a sport, and bowling is a sport. Ice Skating is an athletic exhibition. Chess is not a sport. It is a game

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Finally, a man with principles.

But there's one problem. Now boxing isn't a sport either.

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Is air hockey a sport? Is putt-putt golf a sport?

No. But real hockey and real golf are sports. Just like real tennis is and table tennis is not.

How about this.. if it can be played at a Dave and Buster's then it's not a sport. There's my definition.

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If putt putt golf isn't a sport then golf isn't a sport. Period.

And you can't fit a putt putt course in D&B's.

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Alright you win. Putt putt golf is a sport and ping pong is not.

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Badminton?

Another example that I'm curious about is horse racing. Judging by the responses in this thread in regards to bull riding, I think that the general consensus would be that it is not a sport, but maybe it is if the horse is considered the athlete.

Also, if you look at a very broad perspective of the word sport then fishing and hunting definitely fit. I think that a fair argument could be made that these two activities were actually the original sports.

I think that maybe the consensus of what makes a sport may be too specific for me. I think that sports is a very broad word. I think that what most people are describing as sports might better be specifically described as "athletic games" although this in itself would fall under the broader heading of sports. Maybe sports are just the activity of exerting the body in conjunction with the mind. The more emphasis that there is on exertion of the body the more pure the sport.

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Baseball is probably 98% hand-eye.

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This isn't true at all. The main thing that separates Div 1 and Div 2 college baseball is athleticism, size, power, velocity, etc.

There is much more athleticism to it than you think.

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This is silly. There are two basic components to athleticism: "raw athleticism" (agility, speed, leaping ability....basically everything you do with your feet), and hand-eye coordination. Pretty much every sport requires some combination of those two components.

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Hand-eye coordination is not raw athleticism and I never said it was.

I'd put hand-eye coordination under "skill".

Somebody with great hand-eye coordination has the potential to develop more skill than somebody with less.

You need hand-eye coordination to crochet or play a guitar... but I don't consider those things "athletic".

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What is your definition of a sport?

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LINK

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The precise definition of what separates a sport from other leisure activities varies between sources. The closest to an international agreement on a definition is provided by SportAccord, which is the association for all the largest international sports federations (including association football, athletics, cycling, tennis, equestrian sports and more), and is therefore the de facto representative of international sport.

SportAccord uses the following criteria, determining that a sport should:[1]

have an element of competition
be in no way harmful to any living creature
not rely on equipment provided by a single supplier (excluding proprietary games such as arena football)
not rely on any "luck" element specifically designed into the sport


They also recognise that sport can be primarily physical (such as rugby or athletics), primarily mind (such as chess or go), predominantly motorised (such as Formula 1 or powerboating), primarily co-ordination (such as billiard sports), or primarily animal-supported (such as equestrian sport).

There has been an increase in the application of the term "sport" to a wider set of non-physical challenges such as electronic sports, especially due to the large scale of participation and organised competition, but these are not widely recognised by mainstream sports organisations.

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