djchameleon

You may still consider a pick up game a sport but you aren't playing it at a professional level. It's just a casual pick up game.

Similar to the multi player session with your friends.

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butthead aka 216

what im askin tho is if you consider a pick up bball game a sport, would a game of super smash bros with friends be a sport?? or are you only considering it a sport at a pro level

djchameleon

It's an e-sport regardless of the level that it's played at but obviously the more skilled players will be at the pro level.

Your friends playing a pick up bball game wouldn't hold a candle to NBA players.

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GuitarBizarre

To add - me and my friends, or your friends, or Prince and The Revolution playing a random game of basketball is just that - playing a game of basketball.

When you do that, you don't go from being a spectator to being a sportsman - you go from being a spectator to being a player, the key term being "player" - as in, "to play" - recreational, for fun, etc.

You would, however, become a sportsman if you and your friends entered a local league and played competitively. I think the same applies to all forms of sporting activity. Until you're competing on a serious level, for the sake of victory and advancement, that's a totally different thing than playing for fun.

Which isn't to say you can't find competing for victory and advancement fun in itself, or that you can't have fun while achieving those goals, just to say that the two aren't the same thing, and sportsmanship(sportsmanhood?) is defined by the competition and rules of competition, not by the nature of the game/sport/whatever term you want to use.

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