• EatATaco@lemm.ee
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    11 months 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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      11 months 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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        11 months 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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          11 months ago

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

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            11 months ago

            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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        11 months ago

        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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          10 months 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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        11 months ago

        Fishing has entered the chat.

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