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Games on the flip side are pursuits that someone with zero physical capabilities can compete at a level paying field with any able bodied person-cards, chess, backgammon etc.
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I'm not saying I've given this a lot of thought, more that I think darts, long jump, ten pin bowling are lousy spectator sports.
Cards and chess don't rely on a stable stance and hand to eye coordination; so for me they lack any physical technique that fits my definition of sport.
And you can have sports which are non-competitive, ie recreational. Many kids do gymnastics and trampolining and they're doing the same stuff if they never go to competitions, as their mates who might go to a low-level competition do.
I think to be classed as a sport, it needs to be a physical activity and have some element of physical skill and betterment. For example, snooker could be classed as a sport because although it doesn't require much strength or stamina, there is still a physical skill. Similarly, darts and shooting are sports. But chess, bridge, poker aren't sports.
Parachuting? Its obviously a physical skill (of some kind), but I'm not sure it meets the "betterment" criteria so its marginal. Tandem parachuting is even more marginal - while in theory one could do lots of tandem jumps then do a solo jump, and be better than a newbie (ie never done it, does a solo jump for the first time), also that betterment might go the other way and frighten the life out of you etc.
Bridge is not a sport.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
100 percent sport. My fingers have biceps.
Seriously? I mean, you could do it in flip flops, but you'd get pummeled.
I wouldn't tell a tiger it had lost at bagatelle, fer instance.
-- like sport, at élite level you have to train for it; practice alone is not sufficient.
-- there is no element of chance in it; it's all skill. Whereas games often include chance and randomness to add interest.
But....
It looks like a game because of the lack of physical activity.
If physical activity and mental activity were seen as equal then chess seems to be a sport. If sweat and a jock strap and a Welsh PE master are necessary then chess probably doesn't cut it.