Can’t believe how exhausted they look! I feel the same way after spending the day sitting in my chair working an office job, maybe I should start calling that a sport!
If the only reason you’re sweating is because you’re out in the sun then I’m sorry, that’s not a sport, just like chess is not a sport even though it requires skills, training and effort.
noun
plural noun: sports
1.
an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.
“team sports such as baseball and soccer”
sport is a contractive ellision of disport, from the Latin desport meaning “to carry away,” i.e. a pastime in which you get carried away, or a game with equipment you can carry around.
All dictionaries describe sports as games of athleticism and/or skill.
If you get too prescriptive of your definition then things like running, swimming, karate aren’t sports because they don’t have equipment you can carry, or if shooting has no “athleticism”, wouldn’t it be fair to say that the 100m dash has no particular “skill” and thus is also not a sport.
If that sounds too ridiculous, maybe you should reconsider your position.
Have you also considered Diogenes’ “Behold - A Man!” when trying to define sports?
Ah yes, the sport of shooting guns
What do you mean with that comment?
That it’s not a sport
You clearly haven’t even bothered to watch it to see how dumb your comment is.
https://youtu.be/Ae5q27BFAvI
Can’t believe how exhausted they look! I feel the same way after spending the day sitting in my chair working an office job, maybe I should start calling that a sport!
Of course it’s a sport. Multiple sports even. It takes skill, training and effort to be good at shooting. There are many different shooting sports.
Of course just blindly firing a weapon is not a sport itself. Just as blindly kicking a ball is no sport.
Why do you think shooting is no sport?
If the only reason you’re sweating is because you’re out in the sun then I’m sorry, that’s not a sport, just like chess is not a sport even though it requires skills, training and effort.
I’m sorry not every sport is pure ugga bugga, ape strong, and some instead require brain skills or precision.
Should they be considered sports then?
noun plural noun: sports 1. an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. “team sports such as baseball and soccer”
it can also mean
according to the oxford english dictionary
which makes it quite a bit more open ended
Is archery not a sport then? Or say, golf?
Someone has never pulled a bowstring before
I have, quite a lot, and I would hardly classify the act as particularly athletic.
shooting, darts, snooker, curling, boules, golf, archery, driving/car racing, horse riding, sailing, luge/skeleton, croquet, motorboat racing, table tennis, weight lifting, gliding, skiing, alpinism, ballooning, chess, firefighting, cannon shooting, kite flying, pigeon racing, military patrol, dog-sled racing, bridge, lifeguarding, scuba diving have all been part of modern day Olympics.
And of this list there’s a whole bunch of stuff that isn’t a sport.
Unless you consider that painting is a sport? Because that was in the Olympics as well!
sport is a contractive ellision of disport, from the Latin desport meaning “to carry away,” i.e. a pastime in which you get carried away, or a game with equipment you can carry around.
All dictionaries describe sports as games of athleticism and/or skill.
If you get too prescriptive of your definition then things like running, swimming, karate aren’t sports because they don’t have equipment you can carry, or if shooting has no “athleticism”, wouldn’t it be fair to say that the 100m dash has no particular “skill” and thus is also not a sport.
If that sounds too ridiculous, maybe you should reconsider your position.
Have you also considered Diogenes’ “Behold - A Man!” when trying to define sports?
You’re whole “not a sport” argument is kind of messed up by the fact it’s an Olympic sport, soooo idk
So painting is a sport?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_competitions_at_the_Summer_Olympics
You’re proving that reading comprehension is a sport in which you are terrible.