What is a sport

Darts,chess, dancing,motor racing,skipping,golf, snooker, it's not easy to sort out.

 

Anything that is competitive and has objective criteria in order to score points/win. Skipping has no competitive element, so I'd classify it as a physical activity rather than a sport. Chess and poker are competitive and highly skilled, but with no physical activity, so I'd probably classify them as mind sports.

The ones I have an issue with are things like figure skating and synchronised swimming. The skill level is incredible, but anything that relies on the subjective opinion of a judge for scoring, even ones operating within a defined framework, as deeply flawed as a competitive sport in my opinion.

Having said that, I'm looking forward to taking in a bit of dressage at the Olympics. Because who doesn't love disco dancing horses?

 

So competitive physical activity without a judge or panel deciding the result?

 

Do you have to get changed to do it?

if so it’s a sport, if not it’s a pastime.

 

Does that include changing in to a onesie and lolling about on the settee?

 

Fancy getting a medal for diving at the same time, the sky's the limit to just how many.

 

Sorted!

 

Wouldn’t that eliminate boxing?

 

Only counts if it's a KO!

 

Sounds good to me!

 

I'm not a big boxing fan, but I often hear people questioning one or more of the judges' decisions at the end of a bout.

 

There is only 3 sports Hunting, Fishing , and Shooting all the rest are games

 

Here you go.
Encyclopedia Britannica.
Games and sports are very similar: a game is a physical or mental activity or contest that has rules and that people do for pleasure. A sport is a contest or game in which people do certain physical activities according to a specific set of rules and compete against each other. The difference is subtle.
A game is any mental or physical activity with rules that is done for fun, such as physical activities like baseball and soccer, or board games such as chess and Monopoly, or card games, or electronic games (like apps), or video games.
Sports are specific physical activities one can compete in such as baseball, soccer, football, field hockey, running, cycling, rock climbing, swimming, diving, race car driving, kayaking, or weight lifting.

So as you can see some fit into both categories.

 

Hunting, and to an extent, fishing aren't sports. A sport is when your opponent has a fighting chance to win.

 

If you explained dressage to me and I had never heard of it, I would laugh and say must be terrible to watch.
But every Olympics I'm mesmerised by it!!

 

Depends what you're hunting and how I suppose then.

 

It’s true, but difficult to argue it’s not a sporting contest I would have thought.

 

I think the best definition, (if a little abstract) that I've heard is that a sport is one where you need to change your shoes.

 

I'd also exclude shooting, except for duels.

 

That a suggestion for the Olympics? I'd watch that!