FabSwingers.com forum: What is a sport?

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

To me games like snooker, darts, chess and golf aren’t sports but are pastimes.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've always thought a sport is a competition or challenge that requires physical exertion

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The definition is something to do with rules and competition. So lots of ‘activities’ that might not obviously appear to be sports actually are. But, of course, that doesn’t mean they’re to everyone’s taste.

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

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"To me games like snooker, darts, chess and golf aren’t sports but are pastimes. "

At least you get a good walk with golf

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I've always thought a sport is a competition or challenge that requires physical exertion"
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Like shagging a wife before the husband gets home?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"To me games like snooker, darts, chess and golf aren’t sports but are pastimes. "
sport is competition that involves being a sportsman or a gent ,be gracious in defeat as well as victory

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"To me games like snooker, darts, chess and golf aren’t sports but are pastimes. "
those types of games are for rich people i would say

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I've always thought a sport is a competition or challenge that requires physical exertion.

Like shagging a wife before the husband gets home?"

That involves running, jumping and hurdling if the bugger turns up too early!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"To me games like snooker, darts, chess and golf aren’t sports but are pastimes. those types of games are for rich people i would say"

Do you really have to be rich to play chess or snooker?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Surely a sport is something you have to take your jumper off for and get a little sweaty?

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By *r99mr99Man
over a year ago

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An ex sportsman I used to work with said it's not a sport if you don't have to change your shoes

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By *r99mr99Man
over a year ago

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"To me games like snooker, darts, chess and golf aren’t sports but are pastimes. those types of games are for rich people i would say"

Darts and snooker for rich? Really?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"To me games like snooker, darts, chess and golf aren’t sports but are pastimes. those types of games are for rich people i would say

Do you really have to be rich to play chess or snooker?"

And surely darts is not a rich man's sport either, it's a pub game after all!

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

Cheerleading isn’t yet recognised as a sport but I shall continue to campaign! And no, it’s not about jumping around at sports events shaking your Pom poms

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"To me games like snooker, darts, chess and golf aren’t sports but are pastimes.

At least you get a good walk with golf

Popular phrase: golf spoils a good walk

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"To me games like snooker, darts, chess and golf aren’t sports but are pastimes. those types of games are for rich people i would say

Do you really have to be rich to play chess or snooker?"

Definitely don't have to be rich to play darts and golf can be played cheaply too.

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

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"To me games like snooker, darts, chess and golf aren’t sports but are pastimes. those types of games are for rich people i would say"

Ermmm I dont think rich people play darts

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

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"To me games like snooker, darts, chess and golf aren’t sports but are pastimes.

At least you get a good walk with golf

Popular phrase: golf spoils a good walk

But at least it is slightly athletic

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"To me games like snooker, darts, chess and golf aren’t sports but are pastimes. those types of games are for rich people i would say

Ermmm I dont think rich people play darts

They call it archery.

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle

"Surely a sport is something you have to take your jumper off for and get a little sweaty?"

Not if you are a golfer, they are all about the knitwear

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Technically ,

Hunting , fishing and shooting are sports , other are games

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"To me games like snooker, darts, chess and golf aren’t sports but are pastimes.

At least you get a good walk with golf

Popular phrase: golf spoils a good walk

But at least it is slightly athletic

I used to play a lot and was fitter then. Mind you, I was also 30 years younger.

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

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"To me games like snooker, darts, chess and golf aren’t sports but are pastimes. those types of games are for rich people i would say

Ermmm I dont think rich people play darts

They call it archery. "

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

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"To me games like snooker, darts, chess and golf aren’t sports but are pastimes.

At least you get a good walk with golf

Popular phrase: golf spoils a good walk

But at least it is slightly athletic

I used to play a lot and was fitter then. Mind you, I was also 30 years younger."

Ohh to be young again

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think competition is the key word here.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"To me games like snooker, darts, chess and golf aren’t sports but are pastimes.

At least you get a good walk with golf

Popular phrase: golf spoils a good walk

But at least it is slightly athletic

I used to play a lot and was fitter then. Mind you, I was also 30 years younger.

Ohh to be young again

Young was terrible. Quiet. Shy. Immature. Socially awkward in many ways.

I needed a good stress incident and 4 months of mindfulness counselling 6 years ago to make me who I am now.

So like everyone else. Body younger. Mind as is now.

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle

"To me games like snooker, darts, chess and golf aren’t sports but are pastimes.

At least you get a good walk with golf

Popular phrase: golf spoils a good walk

But at least it is slightly athletic

I used to play a lot and was fitter then. Mind you, I was also 30 years younger.

Ohh to be young again

Young was terrible. Quiet. Shy. Immature. Socially awkward in many ways.

I needed a good stress incident and 4 months of mindfulness counselling 6 years ago to make me who I am now.

So like everyone else. Body younger. Mind as is now."

Most definitely a younger body, this one has had it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"To me games like snooker, darts, chess and golf aren’t sports but are pastimes.

At least you get a good walk with golf

Popular phrase: golf spoils a good walk

But at least it is slightly athletic

I used to play a lot and was fitter then. Mind you, I was also 30 years younger.

Ohh to be young again

Young was terrible. Quiet. Shy. Immature. Socially awkward in many ways.

I needed a good stress incident and 4 months of mindfulness counselling 6 years ago to make me who I am now.

So like everyone else. Body younger. Mind as is now.

Most definitely a younger body, this one has had it

Plenty of life left I reckon

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By *kmale201633Man
over a year ago

Southampton

The skill required to play snooker/darts at the top level is incredible, borderline ridiculous. We're talking millimetres making the difference!

However as they don't involve running around, six packs, sweat etc then they always receive ridicule. Sports in my eyes!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The skill required to play snooker/darts at the top level is incredible, borderline ridiculous. We're talking millimetres making the difference! "

Playing snooker at amateur level is ridiculously difficult.

Most people wouldn’t be able to pot two balls in a row. Yet don’t consider it a sport

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By *esssDanMan
over a year ago

Dundee

As a few people have said already, a sport is a game being played competitively - typically in a structured organisation and possibly for money or other reward beyond having fun and killing time.

Being physical (or "sporty") as you carry out the activity has nothing to do with it. See snooker, chess, videogames, competitive eating...

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