How do you define what constitutes a 'sport' ?

[Bry Nylon]

Okay, stuff like football, rugby, athletics, tennis etc are OBVIOUSLY sports.
But at the fringes there is stuff like golf, snooker, darts, bowls etc. Are these really 'sports', or simply pastimes?

 

[Horsham Gull]

id say something that you can play competitively but then again tiddleywinks could be classed into that so ermm

 

[Tooting Gull]

I can't quite put my finger on it, but there is some intangible element of high competition, skill and drama which I think can compensate for, say, lack of athletic prowess required and still constitute sport.

If anyone has watched and got into a great darts or snooker final, they will understand that.

But I accept that by my own definition things like cards and dominoes probaby qualify, which I wouldn't include, so there must be a better one.

 

[Eddie the Seagull]

I used to throw 2 crane flies into a spiders web & see which one escaped/got squished first.

But spiders are greedy fuckers & would quickly squish the second one before it could break free.

Now that IS sport.

BTW this was about 30 years ago - I was an angelic 8 yesr old, otherwise.......

 

[Lord Bracknell]

id say something that you can play competitively but then again tiddleywinks could be classed into that so ermm

I used to live in the same house as three members of the English international tiddlywinks team.

If sport can be defined as an activity where a governing body will pay for players to have a free trip to America to represent their country, tiddlywinks is, indeed, a sport.

ETwA - The English Tiddlywinks Association

 

[Bluejuice]

Bunch of winkers

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

Definitions of Sport on the Web:

an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
the occupation of athletes who compete for pay
(Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine
a person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances; "a good sport"; "a poor sport"
someone who engages in sports
wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she was sporting a new hat"
mutant: (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
fun: verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously); "he became a figure of fun"; "he said it in sport"
frolic: play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom"

 

[Deleted User X18H]

In my much much younger less like a young Bob Hoskins days I uesed to have a game where I would try and Shag two different women in the same 24 hour period ....now that was a sport

 

[dougdeep]

Simple, if my wife hates it, it's sport.

 

[Bakesy]

Simple, if my wife hates it, it's sport.

What's her opinion on DWARF THROWING?
http://docs.voxeo.com/images/tutorials/dwarf-tossing.jpg

 

[Braders]

In my much much younger less like a young Bob Hoskins days I uesed to have a game where I would try and Shag two different women in the same 24 hour period ....now that was a sport

now THAT should be allowed in the olympics

 

[BigGully]

Sport has to include physical competitiveness and other 'sports' such as golf, darts, are skills and not sports.

I respect the outstanding mental and technical skill of Phil Taylor but he is NOT a sportsman, he is a 'skillsman'.

I reckon anyway...

 

[Bakesy]

I knew a bird nicknamed Dirtbox Donna.Now she was a good sport.

 

[Statto]

I looked up the word sport in the dictionary coz this thought also came acros my mind. It said something like:

"Sport is a competitive activty where competitors/teams copete against each other in order to win prizes,OFTEN involving physical contact."


Make of that what you will.

 

[Braders]

I looked up the word sport in the dictionary coz this thought also came acros my mind. It said something like:

"Sport is a competitive activty where competitors/teams copete against each other in order to win prizes,OFTEN involving physical contact."


Make of that what you will.

and thats how you got your username

 

[Statto]

and thats how you got your username

Yup.

 

[Slowhand]

I always beleived that it was only a proper sport if you had to change footwear to participate.

 

[Bry Nylon]

I always beleived that it was only a proper sport if you had to change footwear to participate.

Okay, so lets go with that definition.

Skiing: in!
Darts: out!

 

[Slowhand]

Darts is competitive, but being a competition is not the same as being a sport.

 

[jevs]

Is fishing a sport ?