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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yep, because professional chess players are well known athletic masterpieces 🙄

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Professional, maybe by the definition this thread seems to prefer. Athletes, no.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's your criteria for sport? what's Golf? Darts? Bowling? Curling? Archery?

Is it that you have to break a sweat? I guess talking to girls makes you an athlete then?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Sport" is defined as athletic activity, and "athlete/athletic" refers to physical exercise, agility, stamina, and strength. So no, playing a video game doesn't count.

If girls make you sweat, good for you. Sex could arguably be athletic, depending on what you get up to.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

so we're just going to skip past all of those examples got it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Except the person in question didn’t call gamers athletes but instead professional.

I would also count athlete a subset of professional as well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not the one who brought athletics into this. I'm just following the conversation. But no, "esports" do not meet the definition of "sport."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

No one in this chain called it a sport that I saw. The root comment was “”professional” gamer”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Captain clueless in the house!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I don’t know what point you’re trying to make?