Game or Sport - compare and contrast

bertie

so what categorises one from the other.

Sporky

I think it's game if you can eat the thing you've killed, and sport if you can't (or don't).

AlbionLass

I like a chap that's game but I soon lose interest if he gives in too easily and doesn't offer good sport.

VimFuego

golf is a game, but shooting golfers is good sport.

fatherjack

A definition I heard once was that if you trained for it, it was a sport, and if you practiced for it, it was a game.  However, general fitness could stand someone in good stead for what might otherwise be considered a game - a snooker player who goes to the gym and stays in shape might be better equipped to cope with the stresses of a long tournament session than a chain-smoking me-a-like.

Phil_aka_Pip

if I practice my instrument is playing it a game?

AlbionLass

fatherjack said:

A definition I heard once was that if you trained for it, it was a sport, and if you practiced for it, it was a game.  However, general fitness could stand someone in good stead for what might otherwise be considered a game - a snooker player who goes to the gym and stays in shape might be better equipped to cope with the stresses of a long tournament session than a chain-smoking me-a-like.

Also keeping in trim saves snooker players money by not having to buy an extra long cue to reach the table past an enormous belly. This is probably why Stephen Lee had to resort to match fixing.

vasselmeyer

If you can do it whilst smoking, it's a game. Otherwise, it's sport.

EricTheWeary

Anything where the players don't interact ( ie is basically turn taking) is a game. Like darts. Or shot put. So, snooker and football are sports.
Not a flawless theory but works for me

monquixote

EricTheWeary said:

Anything where the players don't interact ( ie is basically turn taking) is a game. Like darts. Or shot put. So, snooker and football are sports.
Not a flawless theory but works for me

That makes Super Mario a sport. 

Drew_TNBD

Games are for people who like having fun.

Sport is for overly competitive fuckwits with necks bigger than their arms and tiny dicks.

monquixote

Drew_fx said:

Games are for people who like having fun.

Sport is for overly competitive fuckwits with necks bigger than their arms and tiny dicks.

By that categorisation most FPS games are sports. 

Drew_TNBD

lol! I'd agree!

EricTheWeary

monquixote;51655" said:

EricTheWeary said:

Anything where the players don't interact ( ie is basically turn taking) is a game. Like darts. Or shot put. So, snooker and football are sports.

Not a flawless theory but works for me





That makes Super Mario a sport. 

yes. Super Mario should be in the Olympics and shot put and javelin out. Anything that is basically turn taking is just dull to watch for a start.
I am undecided on snooker. It is turn taking but the outcome of the last player's turn directly effects how your turn goes. But if I accept snooker it means chess and connect 4 and jenga are also sports.

Sporky

EricTheWeary said:

But if I accept snooker it means chess and connect 4 and jenga are also sports.

They are the way I play them.

vasselmeyer

EricTheWeary said:

I am undecided on snooker. It is turn taking but the outcome of the last player's turn directly effects how your turn goes. But if I accept snooker it means chess and connect 4 and jenga are also sports.

See my point on smoking. All can be played whilst smoking, therefore are games, as is golf. Football, rugby, athletics etc. are sport.

VimFuego

high board diving? you can smoke, you just have to be real quick.

EricTheWeary

vasselmeyer;51671" said:

EricTheWeary said:I am undecided on snooker. It is turn taking but the outcome of the last player's turn directly effects how your turn goes. But if I accept snooker it means chess and connect 4 and jenga are also sports.










See my point on smoking. All can be played whilst smoking, therefore are games, as is golf. Football, rugby, athletics etc. are sport.

in order to smoke you need only one hand to play the game or sufficient time between turns to light up. But in football you don't use your hands much and, therefore, could smoke whilst playing.

AlbionLass

EricTheWeary said:

vasselmeyer;51671" said:

EricTheWeary said:I am undecided on snooker. It is turn taking but the outcome of the last player's turn directly effects how your turn goes. But if I accept snooker it means chess and connect 4 and jenga are also sports.










See my point on smoking. All can be played whilst smoking, therefore are games, as is golf. Football, rugby, athletics etc. are sport.

in order to smoke you need only one hand to play the game or sufficient time between turns to light up. But in football you don't use your hands much and, therefore, could smoke whilst playing.

Isn't that why they used to wear longer, baggier shorts in the olden days? Room for pockets to keep their tin of baccy, papers and box of Swan Vestas for consumption during matches. This went out of fashion during the '70s because of the fire hazard presented by the proliferation of longer hair, perms and increased use of flammable male grooming products among professional footballers.

EricTheWeary

@AlbionLass good point well made. And football is described as a game of two halves, not a sport of two halves.

vasselmeyer

AlbionLass said:

Isn't that why they used to wear longer, baggier shorts in the olden days? Room for pockets to keep their tin of baccy, papers and box of Swan Vestas for consumption during matches. This went out of fashion during the '70s because of the fire hazard presented by the proliferation of longer hair, perms and increased use of flammable male grooming products among professional footballers.

Surely another reason to link to the Harry Enfiled sketch on historic Arsenal v modern Liverpool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4CXY6TVBMc