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  • weker01@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Of course it’s a sport. Multiple sports even. It takes skill, training and effort to be good at shooting. There are many different shooting sports.

    Of course just blindly firing a weapon is not a sport itself. Just as blindly kicking a ball is no sport.

    Why do you think shooting is no sport?

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      If the only reason you’re sweating is because you’re out in the sun then I’m sorry, that’s not a sport, just like chess is not a sport even though it requires skills, training and effort.

          • prayer@sh.itjust.works
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            3 months ago

            So archery is a sport because it requires effort, but the effort isn’t the part that makes archery hard? Olympic archers don’t struggle with pulling the bowstring, they struggle with aiming the bow to get fractions of a point.

            If they ran a lap in between shots during the shooting sports would you call that a sport?

        • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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          3 months ago

          Should they be considered sports then?

          noun plural noun: sports 1. an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. “team sports such as baseball and soccer”

          • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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            3 months ago

            And neither are sports, just because some people can do it professionally doesn’t mean it’s a sport.

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          3 months ago

          If Alexis Lagan and Katelyn Abeln can compete 1v1 in the same category then I’m sorry to inform you that physical fitness isn’t a criteria for whatever the competition is and we’re not talking about a sport.

      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        shooting, darts, snooker, curling, boules, golf, archery, driving/car racing, horse riding, sailing, luge/skeleton, croquet, motorboat racing, table tennis, weight lifting, gliding, skiing, alpinism, ballooning, chess, firefighting, cannon shooting, kite flying, pigeon racing, military patrol, dog-sled racing, bridge, lifeguarding, scuba diving have all been part of modern day Olympics.

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            3 months ago

            You’re whole “not a sport” argument is kind of messed up by the fact it’s an Olympic sport, soooo idk

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                3 months ago

                I’d argue no, not really. It’s also not in the Olympics.

                We get it, you don’t like guns, but drip your gate keepy bullshit

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                  3 months ago

                  But it was, therefore it was a sport at some point (by your own logic) which I guess would also mean that if shooting was to be removed from the Olympic events then it wouldn’t be a sport anymore (again, extrapolating from what you just said regarding painting), but does that mean that to be a sport something needs to be part of the Olympics or we can evaluate each discipline for what they are, i.e. some competitions present at the Olympics just aren’t sports (contrary to what you seem to pretend) and that’s been the case for a very long time.

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            3 months ago

            sport is a contractive ellision of disport, from the Latin desport meaning “to carry away,” i.e. a pastime in which you get carried away, or a game with equipment you can carry around.

            All dictionaries describe sports as games of athleticism and/or skill.

            If you get too prescriptive of your definition then things like running, swimming, karate aren’t sports because they don’t have equipment you can carry, or if shooting has no “athleticism”, wouldn’t it be fair to say that the 100m dash has no particular “skill” and thus is also not a sport.

            If that sounds too ridiculous, maybe you should reconsider your position.

            Have you also considered Diogenes’ “Behold - A Man!” when trying to define sports?

      • abbadon420@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        It does require phisical skill. You have to aim, perfect hand eye coordination, muscle memory, breath control. A sport doesn’t require a full body workout, if it did than bob sleighing or dressage or table tennis wouldn’t be sports either. Sport is about physical fitness but also about teamwork, competition, perseverance and much more.

        It’s like saying deathmetal isn’t music, because you can’t understand the words they sing.