sports that aren't sports

Started by Arachnoidfreak6 pages

You can't be fat and in shape at the same time. being fat IS being out of shape.

Originally posted by wuTa
no i didnt i just didnt explain....look at offensive lineman there fat but there still in shape...i agree that i highy doubt that nascar is the #1 sport and i dont know if i would conisder it a sport but its defintly more os a sport than bowling or pool...makin spit second decisions goin 160 mph is a little differ than makine a spilt second decision goin 25mph to avoid a kid

red superfly- i couldnt agree more

Point, wu Ta--the offensive lineman is a perfect illustrative point. It IS possible to be fat and in shape--Football is a great example. The size makes you impassable and immovable, but you have to have agility, strength, and endurance to play the game--especially on that level. Would anybody tell Charles Haley, Leon Lett or Warren Sapp that they were fat? Not if they valued their lives!

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Anything that you depend on a motor to do most of hte work for you isn't a sport. Now if they PUSHED the cars, it would be a sport. Not a good sport, but a sport nonetheless.

Explain to me how pool, chess, and bowling ARE sports.

Did any of us say that they were? I don't remember reading any posts adamantly stating that they were. That doesn't men they're not here, I just don't remember seeing any.

there are posts were people argue that they are sports but there mostly on the 1st page

This discussion can last forever....

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cause most are to stubborn

I'll just say it as easy as possible as I see sports:
everything that was mentioned here is, ... just not chess, that's more of a mindgame instead of a physical game
and some sports (like ie fishing), I don't consider them that hard as a sport (I mean, what I know from fishing is taht you mostly sit and do nothing, not being active)

i'm not sure if i understood are you saying that fishing is a sport even though it requires no activity and the chess is a sport coz its a mind game...chess is a boardgame not a sport....alegebra can be a mindgame and there are a ton of other boardgames that require use of the mind and there just boardgames like chess not sports

POKER! not many people would think this is a sport and being someone who played football, baseball, basketball, and i snowboard its hard for me to call it a sport.. but it is competitive, takes some skill, and some luck, and requires a lot of endurance for (turnament games) so it does have a lot of sports like qualities

guys....calm down... a hundred years ago football wasn't much of a sport... the world evolves around us so u better start to accept the changes... everything mentioned here in this thread is a sport.. it's there in international competitions that bring in bilions of eur...uh...dollars every year.. .video games are starting to become quite popular at high cost/reward competitions too.... the world isn't backwards, it's moving forward and some of u are standing still... that's all

As a sidenote though..while everything is a form of entertainment and competition, the word "sport" usually refers to something implying athlethic capabilities...

Originally posted by rusky
the word "sport" usually refers to something implying athlethic capabilities...

exactly....poker is fun to play and competitve unless your losing but there are not athletic requirements to play it which is why i wouldnt cosider it a sport

But...poker just isn't a sport and has never been considered as one.

Motorsports are sports for sure. You have to have some sort of physical attribute that makes you win. Superbike riders need stamina and strength to hurl the bike from left to right on chicanes, keep steady on the bike, and to actually stay on. They need to be the lightest they can be. This goes for F1 drivers, who have all the physical stress of freakin astronauts.

Motorsports deserve their name.

Sport implies physical activity married with some sort of tactical element or strategy. Motorsport definitely falls under this.

Snooker, Pool, and all those other fatboy games are just, well GAMES. They have the tactical element but require no physical element whatsoever. By definition alone, they are not sports.

Athletes sweat after hours of gruelling running. Darts players sweat after sitting down with a glass of water.

In fact, some video games should be considerred sports, seeing as many actually offer physical, skillful, and tactical elments.

However, seeing as video games are new, they are seen as controversial. I seriously don't understand how people can tolerate professional darts players, yet a person who is amazing at Counterstrike is called "sad". Again, it's probably because of ignorance.

Dancing Stage Megamix is more of a sport than darts.

awh...but a sport does not imply only athletic capabilities. poker is as much a sport as..let's say..chess is. or playing darts.
some imply phisical coordonation, some only mental...and some both

Originally posted by Dexx
awh...but a sport does not imply only athletic capabilities. poker is as much a sport as..let's say..chess is. or playing darts.
some imply phisical coordonation, some only mental...and some both
But chess isn't a sport either ! ❌

The definition of the word "sport" used to be anything that you could bet money on. So when people went to see a horse race, for example, and they bet on it, they were participating in a sport even though they weren't the ones out there on the track.

Originally posted by Darth Revan
The definition of the word "sport" used to be anything that you could bet money on. So when people went to see a horse race, for example, and they bet on it, they were participating in a sport even though they weren't the ones out there on the track.
Where does this definition come from ? 🤨 That's absolutely wrong to link sport & Money !

Originally posted by G.P
But chess isn't a sport either ! ❌

it is a considered a sport..or so i knew.