GuitarBizarre

No, they are not inherently competitive, there are no established rulesets for making them competitive, there is no framework from which one can make them a sport.

eSports has those by design, since the games used are competitive by nature and the rules are part of the programming of the game itself.

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Rubato

Competitive eating is considered a sport, I don't see why forming a competition for brushing your teeth would be any less of a sport even on a small scale. Pfft call it what you want, just don't consider it a substitute for any athletic activity.

GuitarBizarre

I think you mean strenuous physical activity. As we discussed, athletics book definition includes forms of athleticism based on dexterity.

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Dr_Rez

Thank you. you are the only person who understood what I said.

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midnight rain

He disagreed with you... he said brushing your teeth could be a sport, if done competitively.

GuitarBizarre

To be fair, what you said was pretty ambiguous, because you relied on quoting a point we'd already disagreed with, and whose author was in complete, not partial, opposition with our premise, in order to make your own point which was not the same as theirs.

How else was I supposed to read it apart from you echoing Pedestrian's view?

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Zer0

Could masterbation be a sport if done competitively?

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midnight rain

Physical activity? Check. Competitive, you say? Check. Popular past time? Check!

GuitarBizarre

Yes, although established rulesets would need to be adopted.

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Rubato

I'll take your word for it, either way when people typically ask you if you do any sports they tend to mean anything pertaining to physical fitness, responding to the question with Chess, hunting, eating hot dogs or playing Starcraft will be met with a GTFO, regardless of the words origin to avoid confusion I'd typically put such things under "games". Words have known to change meaning throughout the evolution of language, sometimes it's best to just go along with it.