Is Bridge a sport?

[snorri]

Maybe we as a society have given up on getting people fit and healthy and to make them feel better about themselves they can now compete at "sports" where being overweight, smoking and drinking are not a bar to participation.

It sounds as if you would debar people from sport or "sport" unless their fitness level comes within certain parameters.
I don't think participation in sport should be all about striving to be best in your club or country or in the world, but just in improving ones own health and wellbeing, even if some participants may continue to smoke and drink.

 

[jonny jeez]

The need for physical skill and/or stamina/strength?

Like sex...which I win every time

WINNER!!!

 

[sight-pin]

Like sex...which I win every time

WINNER!!!

Would that be listed under a Shooting sport?

 

[jonny jeez]

Would that be listed under a Shooting sport?

Well it certainly wouldn't be classed as endurance

 

[vernon]

Well it certainly wouldn't be classed as endurance

I don't know about that.

 

[jonny jeez]

I don't know about that.

You know what "they" say about folk that deny stuff...

 

[MossCommuter]

What differentiates a game from a sport?

One is eligible for lottery funding, the other is not.

 

[Salad Dodger]

If Bridge is accepted as a sport, then what next?
Freestyle "Snap"?
Synchronised "Beat your neighbours out of doors"?
Relay "Canasta"?

 

[Profpointy]

surely mountaineerng, bullfighting and whatever the other one was are sports. Running and football and cards are mere games

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Who the hell cares what they call it? It makes absolutely no difference.

 

[vickster]

I expect some of the old dears playing Bridge could get very exercised about the result

 

[jonny jeez]

If Bridge is accepted as a sport, then what next?
Freestyle "Snap"?
Synchronised "Beat your neighbours out of doors"?
Relay "Canasta"?

I'd watch relay canasta

 

[jonny jeez]

Who the hell cares what they call it? It makes absolutely no difference.

Do you ride a road bike or a hybrid?

 

[Tin Pot]

Yawn, the age old "it's not football so it's not sport" paradigm.

Most people are thick, most people watch football, those people buy SkySports.

So I'd say, if it's not on SkySports, it's not a sport.

Otherwise, if something is done competitively it is sport: poker, carousing, even darts.

 

[classic33]

Bridge - No
Darts - Yes

Darts - No. Unless they're prepared to follow their own rules.
Bridge - No