Sports Debate - Is Cycling a Sport

[rich p]

He's right. And Vernon's right.
And I'm usually right.
And 3BM usually isn't.

 

[GrasB]

It's a sport when you decide it is a sport. It's not a sport when you decide it isn't a sport. This means that when one person consider cycling has become a sport for them there will be other people who may not agree.

See clear as mud!

 

[Herr-B]

I whiff-waft daily, the wife hates me doing it, particularly in a crowded supermarket.

Cycling is a sport if you are competing, a hobby if you're not. And a very nice one, too. Now darts - that's a proper sport.

 

[Octet]

It seems I've kicked up a storm in a teacup,

I think I'll take the philisophical view that GrasB has put forward, "it's what you want it to be"... probably the simplest stance to take.

 

[Sara_H]

I whiff-waft daily, the wife hates me doing it, particularly in a crowded supermarket.

Cycling is a sport if you are competing, a hobby if you're not. And a very nice one, too. Now darts - that's a proper sport.

Riding to work isn't a hobby.

 

[ianrauk]

Riding to work isn't a hobby.

It is for me

 

[Sara_H]

It is for me

Saaaaaaaaaaad! Get a proper hobby, take up a sport or something!

 

[ianrauk]

Saaaaaaaaaaad! Get a proper hobby, take up a sport or something!

nah. I'm far too lazy for all that nonsence.

 

[Dayvo]

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

And what if you 'knock one out' before, during, or after?

 

[Andy_R]

someone will come along soon and say that golf is a sport, instead of a waste of a good walk

 

[Longshot]

someone will come along soon and say that golf is a sport, instead of a waste of a good walk

Yes, they will. Me.

 

[Hip Priest]

Who cares? We get too hung up on words. Cycling is cycling.

 

[ComedyPilot]

And what if you 'knock one out' before, during, or after?

...Cyclo-boxing.....?

 

[Octet]

Who cares? We get too hung up on words. Cycling is cycling.

Yep, I think the main thing is that you do cycling because you enjoy it.

My friend and I have finished the debate (no-one won), and have arranged to go cycling with him next weekend anyway... when I say cycling, I'm referring to the couple of miles between cafés serving cake.

 

[Milzy]

I run for a club & have an amateur racing license but I'm not an athlete according to a chump at work. 0_o Not worth arguing with the imbecile.