• EatATaco@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’m always interested in this take. By definition,.it’s clearly a sport.

    How do you define sport and how does it not meet the definition? It’s a game of physical skill, mental concentration, and competition.

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      1 year ago

      I have always viewed it as a sport involves and active defensive player and an overall greater level of physical movement

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        1 year ago

        What about non-team sports, like running, cycling, surfing, skiing, etc. maybe there’s a defensive strategy but there’s no active defensive player. Are those also not sports?

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          1 year ago

          Interesting point, i know they are definitely sports so it kinda throws my point away haha

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            Not really. They meet your qualifier of greater amount of physical activity/movement.

            Sport has connotations of fast paced physical activity.

            Games like Solitaire and Golf can be done by yourself and for most people won’t be spiking your heart levels to a runners high.

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        Motorsports have no defensive player and do not involve much physical movement (unless you count the car’s movement).

        Giving a cat a bath involves a defensive player (the cat) and significant physical movement (depends on the cat’s mood).

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          1 year ago

          Part of the definition of a sport is that it accomplishes absolutely nothing useful at all, other than entertainment, thought about it and perhaps fitness. Bathing a cat is not a sport because it actually has a useful goal, I.e. cleaning a cat.

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            I would say that getting healthier and fitter is absolutely useful, and so is entertainment.

            But anyways, some sports can be useful for training purposes (Ever heard of the Firefighter Olympics? It’s really cool).

            Also there’s also stuff like people jogging/biking to go places, and sailing maybe can also fall into this category though I don’t think it’s a thing anymore. (IIRC in the 1700s there was a sort of sport where ships would race each other across the Atlantic to deliver stuff as fast as possible. Not sure though, take with grain of salt.)

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              There’s still people who sail to get to a destination. It’s a bit of a rich person thing, though. Even without a motor, boats are holes in the water that you sink money into. More so if it has to be ocean-going.

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        1 year ago

        Fishing has entered the chat.

        Definitely a defensive participant and an offensive participant, but way less physical activity like 90% of the time.

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        1 year ago

        You haven’t played golf with me. Better watch your balls as you have your legs open to swing.