Disagree
Difference between sport and recreation is attitude of participants.
A contest for money or bragging rights is a sporting contest.
Bowling, on a league or as a pro,is a sport. Bowling with the girlfriend for fun is recreation, and maybe some hopes of procreation..

That's my point. Incredibly well is not the same as equal in competition. Face it, no woman has a prayer of competing equally on Ninja, there's always the implicit and unspoken words, "for a woman".  And that's okay, we're not supposed to be equal.

The debate we had started with ESPN showing poker. And while I get Jog's point, I think a sport deserves a different definition.

Iron kettle? You mean curling?

Hmmmm?... Competitive eating?...

Are, archery, shooting, chess, poker, golf, PP, etc, etc, etc,   (Probably 100’s), sports, games, skills, or competitions.

It will depend on who you talk to.

If one says:  Brent Favre is connected with what sport?
   A whole lot would say the right answer.
If one said: Jerry Miculek is connected with what sport ?
    Lot, LESS, would be able to give the correct answer.

So the person, that is doing that thing,
Will have a opinion on what to call it,
and it is probably different that the person,
who does Not do that thing, opinion.
And most probably not a solid consensus will be reached,
and it is to be argued about for some time.

Kinna Like, “well regulated militia”, when not reading the rest.
when not understanding what it meant 250+ years ago.

What is a, ’Sport’, is a interesting discussion, and really doesn’t affect anything but perhaps, ‘pride’, in a person that does that thing.

What is, “well regulated militia”, is a mater of Freedom, and Life.

Serowbot wrote on 06/11/18 at 13:27:02:

...'cause it's always about guns...

    Sure !
They both have group/s of people that cannot decide, what something is.

One argument, is interesting, and it affects, little, in the way of Life.

The other, DOES, affect  Life and Freedom.

  So in this case,
You-Betcha. (said in a Fargo accent)

                     

how about simply

a competition where physical skills/techniques/abilities are vital to succeeding

so like chess, not a sport, because it doesn't matter if you physically move the piece or have a computer do it

but in football, simply thinking through the perfect play/plan only matters if you can physically execute that play/plan

yeah, it's a broad, vastly INCLUSIVE definition, but at least it's not innately sexist

not saying that there aren't physical differences between men and women, but they don't have to be used to define everything.