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POLL: Is billiards more of a sport than cycling?

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Originally posted by: rudder
Originally posted by: SnapIT
And activity that will potentially make you throw up your beer is a sport...
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Wow, what blazing logic... so riding a rollacoaster is a sport?

If you want to simplify it, you should probably try arguing endurance, power and skill... then you would probably see that billiards is indeed a sport...
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no a rollercoaster is a ride. I guess I should have spelled out competetive activity. I guess your right though, billiards is a sport. I stopped going to the gym and now shoot some billiards at lunch. Billiards requires so much endurance and power that I am completely worn out after about 25 minutes. At least half the time I would spend at the gym.
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Again, blazing logic... so do you need skill to compete in billiards? do you?

I haven't played for years, i go to the gym five days a week and i still argue that billiards is a sport simply because of the skill you need to compete... did you get it this time or should i try to explain it further to you?
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
cycling.

lumberjacking isn't a sport, though it is shown on espn
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Why is riding a bike a sport and lumberjacking isn't? Both are very simple physical activities which you can do competitively. What's the difference?

 
Originally posted by: rudder
Originally posted by: SnapIT
And activity that will potentially make you throw up your beer is a sport...
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Wow, what blazing logic... so riding a rollacoaster is a sport?

If you want to simplify it, you should probably try arguing endurance, power and skill... then you would probably see that billiards is indeed a sport...
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no a rollercoaster is a ride. I guess I should have spelled out competetive activity. I guess your right though, billiards is a sport. I stopped going to the gym and now shoot some billiards at lunch. Billiards requires so much endurance and power that I am completely worn out after about 25 minutes. At least half the time I would spend at the gym.
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I don't understand why you think a sport needs to tire you out...

 
How can one activity be more of a sport than another? It's either a sport or it isn't. Sport is defined by a physical activity with rules and customs engaged in competitively. Cycling is a sport, billiards is a sport, golf is a sport, darts is a sport, sumo wrestling is a sport, etc....

Saying that cycling is more of a sport than billiards is like saying that a subway sandwich is more of a sandwich than a PB & J on wheat. 😉
 
Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Billiards is in the oplympics. It's officially recognized as a sport. But, no matter what it is, anything's better than cycling.

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Even curling? 😉

 
IMO, an acitivity is only a sport as long as there is some kind of offense and defense. It's that way in billiards, with playing safeties and whatnot. I'm not sure if cycling would fit into that definition, though.
 
if you have to wear a jockstrap (support bra for women) it is a sport.

If you are wearing a jockstrap while shooting pool, you can then call it a sport.😉
 
I wish they would had some deep holes to those cycling tracks, then we could watch cycliards! woot!


"2 bike combo; french guy into yellow jersey into inside turn pocket"


 
Originally posted by: 911paramedic
if you have to wear a jockstrap (support bra for women) it is a sport.

If you are wearing a jockstrap while shooting pool, you can then call it a sport.😉
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That does not sound right, so you mean that the 100M dash is a sport only for women, for men it is not?
 
cycling is a sport where you practice atleast 7 hours at a time... its a bloody sport.

billards is as much of a sport as playing warcraft, starcraft and chess.
 
from the dictionary:

Main Entry: sport
Function: noun
Date: 15th century
1 a : a source of diversion : RECREATION b : sexual play c (1) : physical activity engaged in for pleasure (2) : a particular activity (as an athletic game) so engaged in
2 a : PLEASANTRY, JEST b : often mean-spirited jesting : MOCKERY, DERISION
3 a : something tossed or driven about in or as if in play b : LAUGHINGSTOCK
4 a : SPORTSMAN b : a person considered with respect to living up to the ideals of sportsmanship <a good sport> <a poor sport> c : a companionable person
5 : an individual exhibiting a sudden deviation from type beyond the normal limits of individual variation usually as a result of mutation especially of somatic tissue

the bold is there so that all of you will reconsider whether or not either cycling or billiards is a sport. 😀
 
Originally posted by: js1973
IMO, an acitivity is only a sport as long as there is some kind of offense and defense. It's that way in billiards, with playing safeties and whatnot. I'm not sure if cycling would fit into that definition, though.
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It does, believe it or not. In the case of the Tour de France, the leader's team will ride a defensive race to protect his lead and the other teams will ride offensively (sending attacks up the road all day for example) to attempt to eat into the lead. It's more subtle than say, football, but it's there.
 
Originally posted by: Nefrodite
cycling is a sport where you practice atleast 7 hours at a time... its a bloody sport.

billards is as much of a sport as playing warcraft, starcraft and chess.
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7 hours? 16 days a week?

Competitive billiards is an accepted sport whether you like it or not...
 
Originally posted by: js1973
IMO, an acitivity is only a sport as long as there is some kind of offense and defense. It's that way in billiards, with playing safeties and whatnot. I'm not sure if cycling would fit into that definition, though.
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Alrighty then!
I guess that no track and field events, including the Marathon and Decathalon, are sports either, eh?

 
"I guess that no track and field events, including the Marathon and Decathalon, are sports either, eh?"

Nope. Not until they let em tackle each other.
 
Originally posted by: dtyn
You serious?
"Oh man, look at those rippling arm muscles"
"Yea, I got those from playing billiards...now that's a real mans sport"
LMAO, I don't even consider billiards a sport at all.
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Bet you suck at billiards.
 
You want offense and defense?

Try to defend yourself and your bike when someone comes up to you in a peloton and tries to muscle your ass into a ditch.

You want skill?

Try to defend yourself when someone goes after your front wheel with a water bottle, or better yet, thread your bike through a crash in progess at 60km/hr.
 
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