Game or Sport? Your opinion.

JJDLD

My little theory...

If you train, it's a sport. If you practice, it's a game.

Snooker players prepare on the "practice table", therefore snooker is a game.

switchback18

spen666 wrote:

whyamihere wrote:

I just go by what is said to be played and what is not. For example, people are said to play football, rugby or darts, so they're games. Nobody says they're playing cycling, or marathon running, so they're sports.

so football rugby, tennis, squash are not sports?

rugby - yes, squash - yes, tennis - maybe, football - no

If you ask me to explain I'll just repeat that

BigG67

Here part of UKSport's criteria for recognition of a sport taken from the Council of Europe’s European Sports Charter 1993:

“Sport means all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation aimed at expressing or improving physical fitness and mental well-being forming social relationships or obtaining results in competition at all levels.” [which is bad grammer]
As guidance, the Sports Councils will place an emphasis on the human physical activity when the sporting activity takes place and not activity in preparation for the sporting activity, or on its conclusion.

Essential purpose: The purpose of the activity must be solely for sport, as defined above, and not a means to another end.

pneumatic

It has something to do with fuzzy logic if I remember my linguistics lectures correctly.

You can draw up a set of characteristics of "Sport", based on the best examples. You can do the same for "Games". Some of those characteristics will overlap. Some further examples you come up with will only have the characteristics that overlap. In that case, you can either argue about it until the cows come home, or call it a "grey area" and move on.

God, I'm bored today!

cycologist

Why do people participate in sports at the Olympic Games" ?

Stewie Griffin

A Friends definition is that sports have laws and games have rules.

northernneil

cycologist wrote:

Why do people participate in sports at the Olympic Games" ?

slaps forehead

good question !

beverick

Rick Chasey wrote:

Wikipedia defines it quite well actually...

A sport is an organized, competitive, entertaining, and skillful physical activity requiring commitment, strategy, and fair play, in which a winner can be defined by objective means. It is governed by a set of rules or customs. In sports the key factors are the physical capabilities and skills of the competitor when determining the outcome (winning or losing). The physical activity involves the movement of people, animals and/or a variety of objects such as balls and machines or equipment. In contrast, games such as card games and board games, though these could be called mind sports and some are recognized as Olympic sports, require primarily mental skills and only mental physical involvement. Non-competitive activities, for example as jogging or playing catch are usually classified as forms of recreation.

So, by that definistion, going down the pub with your mates and playing 'down in one' is a sport - as are sheep dog trials.

Is it too late to have either in the 2012 Olympics as a demonstration sport.....

Stewie Griffin wrote:

A Friends definition is that sports have laws and games have rules.

So where does that leave (association) football and cricket which have laws both of which are known as being games?

JJDLD wrote:

My little theory...

If you train, it's a sport. If you practice, it's a game.

Snooker players prepare on the "practice table", therefore snooker is a game.

Football and rugby players prepare on a "training ground" but practice specific skills such as penalty kicks.

Lets face it, it's largely down to tradition.

Bob

Stewie Griffin

beverick wrote:

So where does that leave (association) football and cricket which have laws both of which are Sports?

Thats better

beverick

Stewie Griffin wrote:

beverick wrote:

So where does that leave (association) football and cricket which have laws both of which are Sports?

Thats better

Did anyone see the Arsenal game last night?

Or even, was anyone at the match (which destroys the hypothesis completely)?

bob

Stewie Griffin

beverick wrote:

Stewie Griffin wrote:

beverick wrote:

So where does that leave (association) football and cricket which have laws both of which are Sports?

Thats better

Did anyone see the Arsenal game last night?

Or even, was anyone at the match (which destroys the hypothesis completely)?

bob

Hell no, time is precious enough without wasting any more watching some has beens struggling make it through with the big boys.






















COYS 8)

simonaspinall

Surely you hunt for 'sport'

I'd also say that komodo dragon wrestling should be the sport that all others should be benchmarked by.