Should Pro Wrestling be considered a real sport?

[hdeck]

sport ( P ) Pronunciation Key (spôrt, sprt)
n.
1.a. Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively.
b. A particular form of this activity.
2. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
3. An active pastime; recreation.

seems to me like it fits the requirements.

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: hdeck
sport ( P ) Pronunciation Key (spôrt, sprt)
n.
1.a. Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively.
b. A particular form of this activity.
2. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
3. An active pastime; recreation.

seems to me like it fits the requirements.

You can't compete in it *competitively* if the match's are played out and this guy lets this other guy kick him in the face or what not.

Thats not ccompetiting, if its staged.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

They call it sports entertainment to differentiate it from being a sport

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Koing

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: caramel
no. just like curling, bowling, archery, lacrosse, etc....

edit: forgot golf.

Lacrosse not a real sport? Are you on crack? Lacrosse happens to be Canada's national sport. It is violent and tough and full of action. Skill and talent are needed to play it.

Lacrosse is definitely a sport.

Golf, curling, bowling and archery are lumped together with billiards under the "competitive games" category for me.

Figure skating, ice dancing, gymnastics, diving etc.. (all sports where judges determine a winner based on impressions) are just... well... NOT sports. They're just something to compete in.

(boxing is different though, as the judging is not at all based on impressions. one punch = one point. in skating, 1 spin != 1 point)

I disagree. Gymnastics is as much as a sport as Football. The difference is that can't be scored as Football where a goal is 1 point. You have it on a few attributes. Still a sport just different method of scoring. Judges don't always get it right and at the top level theres not much in between many of the top 1-3 in the World. Thats where the problem is with those sports. Like at the Olympics with the figure skating thing.........

If gymnastics is a sport, then it's not a stretch to include figure skating, then ice dancing, then ballroom dancing...

So we have football ~ gymnastics ~ figure skating ~ icedancing ~ ball room dancing

Where do you break the link between sports and non-sports? I say between football and gymnastics based mainly on the scoring by judges issue.