Is Bodybuilding a Sport?

[StCapps]

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

Zero physical exertion required. Quit stretching in some lame attempt at sarcasm, I've already been over in detail how awards shows aren't sports.

[Okeefenokee]

My layman's definition of sport is competition done in a sporting manner, rather than to the death.

Many games are also considered to be sports. Football is both. Chess is a game, but some people don't consider it a sport. Chutes and ladders is a game that very few consider to be a sport. I don't think the differentiation is all that important. Competitions exist along spectrum of degrees of physical and mental involvement, each at varying positions along those spectrum. Whether it be physical or mental, skill is what you're measuring. Gentlemanly contests of skill, either physical or mental, or both, to me, are all different flavors of the same thing.

[StCapps]

My layman's definition of sport is competition done in a sporting manner, rather than to the death.

Many games are also considered to be sports. Football is both. Chess is a game, but some people don't consider it a sport. Chutes and ladders is a game that very few consider to be a sport. I don't think the differentiation is all that important. Competitions exist along spectrum of degrees of physical and mental involvement, each at varying positions along those spectrum. Whether it be physical or mental, skill is what you're measuring. Gentlemanly contests of skill, either physical or mental, or both, to me, are all different flavors of the same thing.

Best post of the thread so far. Nailed it Okee.

[TheReal_ND]

Rubix Cube speed solving is another sport. Lots of physical exertion required. If you don't have the manual dexterity to out compete your competition you're not going to win. Plenty of people even pay money for tickets to watch it.

[StCapps]

A parade of shitty analogies is not very persuasive dukenog.

[TheReal_ND]

You haven't even proven me wrong on any of them. You just keep straw manning and moving the goal posts.

[Fife]

Time for a DCF classic.

[StCapps]

You haven't even proven me wrong on any of them. You just keep straw manning and moving the goal posts.

Your analogies are strawmen of my opinion on this matter. Hypocrisy alert.

Also DSL is moving the goalposts, not I. I have remained consistent, your side argues in bad faith, spouting nonsense about Pokemon GO and Chess being a sport. Y'all can't understand a very simple definition just because it conflicts with the narrower definition that you think of as a "sport" in your mind to the point where you refuse to allow the actual definition of the word to interfere with the delusion you've concocted in your mind.

[Okeefenokee]

Time for a DCF classic.

vcr tracking!

[Okeefenokee]

Unsporting,