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Originally Posted by Tuna
Explain to me how racing or hunting, or fishing requires more athleticism than eSports.
I think the dictionary definition would be better if they removed the word "athletic", then eSports (as well as the others I listed) are indeed considered sports.
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You missed my edit, but athletics can be, and is, defined in a manner friendly to the concept of eSports as sports.
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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
To be fair, I don't consider hunting, fishing, darks, snooker, billiards, or curling to be sports either. I suppose then that I shouldn't have taken a dictionary definition including them to make my point, however, I think this argument is silly and not worth the effort of substantiating my opinion beyond "No".
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I fail to see how you can arbitrarily define sports as what you want it to be (by removing them at will. Particularly notable in the case of Curling, which has sufficient status to have been an event at the winter Olympics for nearly a century), and then claim my inclusion of a different set of activities is invalid.
What part of the concept of sports, does eSports violate? Is there a defining quality a sport must have, that eSports does not, and is it central to the concept?