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Originally Posted by BlackBellamy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I mean yeah there are some activities like yachting and cross-country skiing and hockey. None of those are sports. Those are just things white people do.

I'm not a huge fan of hockey, but it's definitely a sport. It meets the three main criteria:

1. An objective contest with rules and a clear winner. Swimming is a sport, diving is not.
2. The athlete plays a bigger part than the equipment in deciding the outcome of the contest. Auto racing is not a sport. Horse racing is only a sport if you're talking about the horse.
3. Performed by an athlete. NFL is a sport. ESports (I cringe even using that term) is not.

I'll give some latitude here for a specialized athlete, but the general criteria here is can you take the athlete to another sport and expect they'd perform well at an intramural type level. I'd take Lebron James for my softball team over, say, Faker.

Based on this you think about Tiger Woods and think golf might be a sport. Then you look at John Daley and think, nah...