Author Topic: What counts as a sport? (Read 10236 times)

a-4-year-old · « **on:** February 01, 2009, 06:27:45 pm »

People have called everything from cup stacking to competitive lumberjack lumber-jacking a sport.

So whats your definition of a sport? Does motorsport count as a "real" sport? Cheerleading? Badmitton?

excruciator · « **Reply #1 on:** February 01, 2009, 07:18:54 pm »

Require mental or physical work,has to be entertaining, and is not the most useful skill to have in life.

And has to be non-virtual, and IMO, you have to be the one doing most of the work.

Xxypher · « **Reply #2 on:** February 01, 2009, 07:19:30 pm »

FOOTBALL.

jrgp · « **Reply #3 on:** February 01, 2009, 08:15:32 pm »

Anything you'd rather be doing while you're doing something you know you should be doing.

a-4-year-old · « **Reply #4 on:** February 01, 2009, 08:19:13 pm »

You want to think that one over jrgp?

Thinkto urself · « **Reply #5 on:** February 01, 2009, 08:22:52 pm »

Quote from: jrgp on February 01, 2009, 08:15:32 pm

Anything you'd rather be doing while you're doing something you know you should be doing.

If that were true masturbation would be a sport.

jrgp · « **Reply #6 on:** February 01, 2009, 08:35:55 pm »

Quote from: Thinkto urself on February 01, 2009, 08:22:52 pm

Quote from: jrgp on February 01, 2009, 08:15:32 pm
Anything you'd rather be doing while you're doing something you know you should be doing.
If that were true masturbation would be a sport.

Indeed it is.

Quote from: a-4-year-old on February 01, 2009, 08:19:13 pm

You want to think that one over jrgp?

No?

Lord Frunkamunch · « **Reply #7 on:** February 01, 2009, 08:37:41 pm »

So everything has the potential to be a sport if someone likes it better than something else?

'S pretty vague...

a-4-year-old · « **Reply #8 on:** February 01, 2009, 08:38:17 pm »

That took generic and punted it into a black hole a million parsecs away.

Xxypher · « **Reply #9 on:** February 01, 2009, 08:39:35 pm »

Quote from: excruciator on February 01, 2009, 07:18:54 pm

Require mental or physical work,has to be entertaining, and is not the most useful skill to have in life.

And has to be non-virtual, and IMO, you have to be the one doing most of the work.

This.

PANZERCATWAGON · « **Reply #10 on:** February 01, 2009, 08:40:19 pm »

a sport is something like tennis

cup stacking is not a sport

Xxypher · « **Reply #11 on:** February 01, 2009, 08:44:13 pm »

Yeah... The state keeps trying to push "new sports" or make things a sport that shouldn't be just to push kids into getting active.

a-4-year-old · « **Reply #12 on:** February 01, 2009, 08:49:04 pm »

Entertaining is so vague though, I hate soccer but people murder each other over that sport.

excruciator · « **Reply #13 on:** February 01, 2009, 09:12:24 pm »

I thought of this one 5min after I wrote my first definition

Has to be entertaining to watch(or play), competitive and has specific rule, guidelines and goal.

ds dude · « **Reply #14 on:** February 01, 2009, 09:18:51 pm »

How can cup stacking be a sport?

I would take Football(soccer) over Football(American) any day.

PQ · « **Reply #15 on:** February 01, 2009, 09:27:08 pm »

I learnt not to have discussions like this.
Girls won't like it if you say that horse-racing is not a sport..

Quote from: excruciator on February 01, 2009, 09:12:24 pm

I thought of this one 5min after I wrote my first definition

Has to be entertaining to watch(or play), competitive and has specific rule, guidelines and goal.

Weee, Soldat is a sport..

edit: I made a topic about that once, lol

excruciator · « **Reply #16 on:** February 01, 2009, 09:29:12 pm »

Quote from: PQ on February 01, 2009, 09:27:08 pm

Quote from: excruciator on February 01, 2009, 09:12:24 pm
I thought of this one 5min after I wrote my first definition

Has to be entertaining to watch(or play), competitive and has specific rule, guidelines and goal.

Weee, Soldat is a sport..

edit: I made a topic about that once, lol

E-sports..

I know, the definition is pretty general. But still...

Sir Jeremy · « **Reply #17 on:** February 01, 2009, 11:11:26 pm »

chess

Mangled* · « **Reply #18 on:** February 01, 2009, 11:18:55 pm »

A sport is an event which is a contest between two or more people or two or more teams of people, the purpose of which is to entertain an audience.

Football/soccer is bollocks.
American football is a joke.
I quite like ice hockey.

jerich · « **Reply #19 on:** February 01, 2009, 11:38:59 pm »

Anything that requires two or more teams in competition. Any competition could be "considered" a sport but a sport that matters has a big fanbase.

Quote from: Mangled* on February 01, 2009, 11:18:55 pm

A sport is an event which is a contest between two or more people or two or more teams of people, the purpose of which is to entertain an audience.

No, the purpose of the media aspect of sports is to entertain the audience. The overall purpose of sports is centered around the competitors with a common goal of being the best and/or being the champion. A fanbase does not have to be involved with sports at all. The foundation of what one would call a sport would be the competition itself.

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Author Topic: What counts as a sport? (Read 10236 times)