Game or Sport - compare and contrast

ICBM

Ah, but that's because a football match is also a 'game'. Football is a sport.

If you play it sitting down or leaning on a table then it's a game. If you play it standing up then it's a sport.

AlbionLass

ICBM said:

Ah, but that's because a football match is also a 'game'. Football is a sport.

If you play it sitting down or leaning on a table then it's a game. If you play it standing up then it's a sport.

What about luge and skeleton?

ICBM

AlbionLass said:

What about luge and skeleton?

Damn, I missed out the word 'at'... if you play it sitting down at or leaning on a table then it's a game. If it was just sitting down it would make rowing a game .

The standing up needs to not involve tables too, or snooker is a sport.

I'm sure this is all tied up in some sort of 1920s public-school idea of what is or isn't a fitting occupation for a gentleman... but I'm not sure. (And I went to one, although not in the 1920s .)

stickyfiddle

ICBM said:

If you play it sitting down or leaning on a table then it's a game. If you play it standing up then it's a sport.

Darts? 

As for FPSes, there are massive tournaments with big prizes and a significant number of people who play professionally. That makes it "E-Sports" apparently.

octatonic

stickyfiddle said:

ICBM said:

If you play it sitting down or leaning on a table then it's a game. If you play it standing up then it's a sport.

Darts? 

As for FPSes, there are massive tournaments with big prizes and a significant number of people who play professionally. That makes it "E-Sports" apparently.

According to this: http://www.differencebetween.net/miscellaneous/difference-between-game-and-sport/ Darts is a Sport.

The link is clearly bollocks.

JayGee

If you can get killed or seriously injured it's a sport, otherwise it's just a game....

Speaking as a former amateur motorcycle racer who's taken part in some of the Isle of Man's less glamorous road racing events I'd say that massed start, high speed road racing between dry stone walls on glorified cart-tracks (Hello Jurby South!) is pretty much the definitive sport. :-)

Fretwired

Not sure, but I do know that football is a game for over paid dim witted males with bad haircuts, naff tattoos and children named after the cities in which they were conceived and rugby is a sport for real men. 

:-)

holnrew

Using the smoking thing as the differentiator, American "football" is a game. Lots of standing around with the odd bit of throwing and pushing people over.

monquixote

JayGee said:

If you can get killed or seriously injured it's a sport, otherwise it's just a game....

Does that make sticking your knob in a toaster a sport?

AlbionLass

monquixote said:

JayGee said:

If you can get killed or seriously injured it's a sport, otherwise it's just a game....

Does that make sticking your knob in a toaster a sport?

Would certainly be a spectator sport. Can I watch?

bertie

what have I started........................................

octatonic

bertie said:

what have I started........................................

Clearly, a game.

monquixote

octatonic said:

bertie said:

what have I started........................................

Clearly, a game.

But what if he was smoking while he wrote it, but he had his knob in a toaster?

AlbionLass

monquixote said:

octatonic said:

bertie said:

what have I started........................................

Clearly, a game.

But what if he was smoking while he wrote it, but he had his knob in a toaster?

monquixote said:

octatonic said:

bertie said:

what have I started........................................

Clearly, a game.

But what if he was smoking while he wrote it, but he had his knob in a toaster?

I imagine he would be smoking if he left his knob in there long enough.

AlbionLass

AlbionLass

Lord only knows what happened there...

monquixote

I think you may have got over excited at the thought of Bertie's charred member

AlbionLass

monquixote said:

I think you may have got over excited at the thought of Bertie's charred member

There's even a toaster that's just the job.

http://www.igus.co.jp/wpck/default.aspx?Pagename=Manus13_Sausagetoaster&C=JP&L=ja

EricTheWeary

AlbionLass;51927" said:

monquixote said:

I think you may have got over excited at the thought of Bertie's charred member





There's even a toaster that's just the job.

http://www.igus.co.jp/wpck/default.aspx?Pagename=Manus13_Sausagetoaster&C=JP&L=ja

slightly concerned/ intrigued as to why you knew about that..

can I put forward water polo as a true sport? Physically demanding, interactive team sport ( based on the rules for rugby)and not at all possible to smoke whilst playing.
Damn hard on the horses though...

johnnyurq

AlbionLass said:

monquixote said:

I think you may have got over excited at the thought of Bertie's charred member

There's even a toaster that's just the job.

http://www.igus.co.jp/wpck/default.aspx?Pagename=Manus13_Sausagetoaster&C=JP&L=ja

Has anyone told Chillidoggy he will jump the height of himself. Toasted chillidoggies mmm lovely.

Where will technology lead to when we can toast our weiners and other tubelike meat products.