Is Bodybuilding a Sport?

[Speaker to Animals]

Most definitely a sport.

Will probably be included in the 2020 Olympic games in Tokyo. I doubt the Olympics will ever include beauty pageants, however.

Does moving chess pieces really cross the physical exertion threshold? You were shitting on bodybuilding and saying it wasn't a sport and chess has way less physical exertion involved yet you think it is a sport? Walk me through your reasoning on that one, the mental gymnastics required to believe both of those thoughts simultaneously are no doubt really impressive.

Then neither is Formula 1 a sport..

Or bodybuilding, for that matter, since it take little more physical exertion than chess to get oiled up and flex on a stage.

[TheReal_ND]

Why is physical exertion more important than objective scoring criteria in order to qualify, in your view, as a sport?

This is the definition of the word "sport":

An activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.

Therefore if an activity does not involve physical exertion, it isn't a sport. If an activity that involves physical exertion but doesn't involve an individual or a team competing against another or others, then it isn't a sport. If an activity that involves physical exertion does involve an individual or a team competing against another or others but isn't for entertainment, then it it isn't a sport. Only if all of these criteria are met would a physical activity qualify as a sport, by definition.

It's not rocket surgery.
/shrugs

So, back to the original argument, beauty pageants and muscle-man shows are not sports?

Both sports. Both meet the same objective criteria as any other sport.

Bobbing for apples. Sport. Shoots and Ladders. Sport. Pokémon Go. Sport.

[Mercury]

This is the definition of the word "sport":

Therefore if an activity does not involve physical exertion, it isn't a sport. If an activity that involves physical exertion but doesn't involve an individual or a team competing against another or others, then it isn't a sport. If an activity that involves physical exertion does involve an individual or a team competing against another or others but isn't for entertainment, then it it isn't a sport. Only if all of these criteria are met would a physical activity qualify as a sport, by definition.

It's not rocket surgery.
/shrugs

So, back to the original argument, beauty pageants and muscle-man shows are not sports?

Both sports. Both meet the same objective criteria as any other sport.

Bobbing for apples. Sport. Shoots and Ladders. Sport. Pokémon Go. Sport.

Those are all 'doings' or games, man.

Standing in line to be picked up by Freakolini aint no sport.

[Okeefenokee]

Sitting in a scorching hot racecar for hours definitely involves physical endurance.

[StCapps]

Name one thing that doesn't require physical exertion.

There are three criteria that a physical activity has to meet in order to be considered a sport. Physical exertion is only one of those three criteria and just because you can think of a bunch of ways that a lot of things that obviously aren't sports that happen to meet that one criteria does not mean that every one of those "obviously not a sport"'s will meet all three criteria at the same time.

[TheReal_ND]

Straw manning and moving the goal posts. Ballet is another sport.

[Okeefenokee]

Sport,

[StCapps]

Then neither is Formula 1 a sport..

Auto-racing requires mad physical endurance.

Or bodybuilding, for that matter, since it take little more physical exertion than chess to get oiled up and flex on a stage.

No it actually takes a lot more physical exertion to get oiled up and flex on stage. So both physical activities require WAY more physical exertion than playing chess, despite your attempt at mental gymnastics to pretend that Chess is a sport while F1 and Bodybuilding are not, based on a hilarious faulty assumption that sports you are ignorant about are somehow less physically arduous than they actually are. I knew I was in for some interesting pretzel logic to maintain this cognitive dissonance, and you didn't let me down.

[StCapps]

Straw manning and moving the goal posts. Ballet is another sport.

Indeed Ballet can be a sport if individuals or a team are competiting against another or others in ballet competitions. "Sport" and "Art" are not antonyms.

[TheReal_ND]

Growing weed. Sport. Take your strain to Amsterdam and win the cannabis cup. Many people entertained. Much physical exertion required.