Sports Debate - Is Cycling a Sport

[Octet]

Well,

I've just been having a debate with a friend, who claims that cycling isn't a sport unless you do it competitively. I on the other hand say that providing you are doing the exercise, then it is a sport. In addition, you can always beat personal bests and still push yourself like any other sport.

To give you a bit of background, he is a table competitive tennis player, and I'm obviously a cyclist.

So, I put it to you to hopefully settle it before a war breaks out.

 

[Octet]

(Ignore the Spelling Mistake in the Question )

 

[Noodley]

Table Tennis - a game played on a table based on a game that isn't a sport. Go figure that one!

 

[classic33]

Non Competetive Cycling
I'd have to say hobby, one that can also be a form of transport.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

If your friend uses formal competition as a necessary condition for physical exercise to be considered as a sport, then he's right for his point of view. Like you, I think he's wrong but then again I consider a non-league game of cricket as sport. Many of us bring a degree of competitiveness to our exercise, in teams or alone.

Does he also consider ping-pong, aka wiff-waff, as a sport?

 

[Octet]

If your friend uses formal competition as a necessary condition for physical exercise to be considered as a sport, then he's right for his point of view. Like you, I think he's wrong but then again I consider a non-league game of cricket as sport. Many of us bring a degree of competitiveness to our exercise, in teams or alone.

Does he also consider ping-pong, aka wiff-waff, as a sport?

I already tried the argument about self competition, and beating personal bests etc. but without much luck.

I thought Wiff-Waff and Ping Pong where the same as Table Tennis?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I already tried the argument about self competition, and beating personal bests etc. but without much luck.

I thought Wiff-Waff and Ping Pong where the same as Table Tennis?

I doubt that there are many formal wiff-waffing competitions

 

[Noodley]

First mistake - arguing with someone who plays wiff-waff. Social inadequacy guaranteed.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Play football once a week for 90 minutes (September to April) and it's a sport?

You don't football to the shops, work, the pub, school, to see friends, visit the next town. People don't football Coast to Coast, LeJoG or RTW, but you can do that on a bicycle. And if you try to do it as fast as you can, then there's the sporty/fitness aspect. I think that riding a bike 2 hours a day and more on a weekend is enough for fitness, and also deserving to be classed as sporting. Not everyone wants to race etc, but we all have a little 'dig' on our local rides and work some steam up. We don't get medals for turning the pedals week in week out, and there are no spectators at the top of a climb on a Sunday morning in February.

I can't see why someone kicking a pig's bladder around a park for 15 minutes one a month is automatically classed as sporting if a 'cyclist' like me isn't?

 

[vernon]

It's not worth arguing about.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

It's not worth arguing about.

Yes it is.

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

What if it's after a swim and before a run?

 

[vernon]

It's not worth arguing about.

Yes it is.

No it isn't.

 

[vernon]

What if it's after a swim and before a run?

Rusty?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

No it isn't.

Ok, I can see and accept your point of view and concede that you are correct.