It is not a sport, please stop saying otherwise. It is a lifestyle or a hobby, even a past-time. Any activity that can involve drinking and gunning an engine does not qualify as a sport. The same goes for golfing, jet-skiing, bass fishing, billiards, darts, and even bowling. The relative risk factor of an activity does not determine whether or not it has sport status. Snowmobiling on hills to induce avalanches does not make it a sport, unless you need to get off your snowmobile and run for your life, then you can claim it is a sport, but then you are also an idiot, so you choose. —Jesusgun
This article appears in Dec 30, 2010 – Jan 5, 2011.
well…in your opinion maybe.
All I know is, if “Nude Women’s Ski-Boozing” was an Olympic event , no city would ever have to worry about “breaking even” ever again.
OB here is a little education:
sport /spɔrt, spoʊrt/ Show Spelled
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–noun
1. an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
2. a particular form of this, esp. in the out of doors.
3. diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime.
4. jest; fun; mirth; pleasantry: What he said in sport was taken seriously.
5. mockery; ridicule; derision: They made sport of him.
6. an object of derision; laughingstock.
7. something treated lightly or tossed about like a plaything.
8. something or someone subject to the whims or vicissitudes of fate, circumstances, etc.
9. a sportsman.
10. Informal . a person who behaves in a sportsmanlike, fair, or admirable manner; an accommodating person: He was a sport and took his defeat well.
11. Informal . a person who is interested in sports as an occasion for gambling; gambler.
12. Informal . a flashy person; one who wears showy clothes, affects smart manners, pursues pleasurable pastimes, or the like; a bon vivant.
13. Biology . an organism or part that shows an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation.
14. Obsolete . amorous dalliance.
–adjective
15. of, pertaining to, or used in sports or a particular sport.
16. suitable for outdoor or informal wear: sport clothes.
–verb (used without object)
17. to amuse oneself with some pleasant pastime or recreation.
18. to play, frolic, or gambol, as a child or an animal.
19. to engage in some open-air or athletic pastime or sport.
20. to trifle or treat lightly: to sport with another’s emotions.
21. to mock, scoff, or tease: to sport at suburban life.
22. Botany . to mutate.
–verb (used with object)
23. to pass (time) in amusement or sport.
24. to spend or squander lightly or recklessly (often fol. by away ).
25. Informal . to wear, display, carry, etc., esp. with ostentation; show off: to sport a new mink coat.
26. Archaic . to amuse (esp. oneself).
—Idiom
27. sport one’s oak. oak ( def. 5 ) .
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Origin:
1350–1400; ME; aph. var. of disport
—Related forms
sportful, adjective
sport·ful·ly, adverb
sport·ful·ness, noun
sportless, adjective
outsport, verb (used with object)
un·sport·ed, adjective
un·sport·ful, adjective
So OB carry on and be a sport.
Either are Darts, poker or a spelling Bee, all of which are on TSN.
Just because booze fat fucks can do it, doesn’t mean that it isn’t a sport at the elite level. Case in point: Formula One Car racing, even Britney Spears can drive a car but it takes serious fitness to handle the G’s of a two hour event. Same for ski-dooing.
paper, scissors, rock?
Damm,I’m too late…again. Everybody is right OB, snowmobiling is way more of a sport than a lot of things you’ll see on TSN.
I know a woman who races (better than her hubby), tell her that she’s not prticipating in a sport – she’d kick your ass. Could that be considered a sport?
Who cares? Does calling snowmobiling a sport really offend people? How elitist and snobby can you get? “My sport is better than your non-sport haha” seriously?
Debating what is and is not a sport is pointless anyway because it involves debating the meaning of a word with unnecessary scrutiny. I can barely stand semantics when it’s applied to semi interesting things like philosophy, but something as trivial as the meaning of the word sport? Ugh kill me now.
I believe there are a group of people who are trying to get Rock, Paper, Scissors to be considered a sport. It was a demonstration sport one year at the Olympics ;D
In South Korea, Starcraft is pretty much a national sport.
I disagree with you OB, in regard to snow-mobiling as well as all the other sports you listed.
I wish we had 6+ inches of ice!
lol Orgasmatron. Yup, StartCraft is pretty much a sport there as well as a profession and a way of life.
jesusgun, were you just listing the SPORTS you don’t like?
or are you going to enlighten us on your own, obviously very specific definition of a sport that encompasses all versions without exception?
you must obviously know of all the criteria….
snowmobile riders in BC, are simply increasing the intelligence of the ‘group’… through the self culling of their herd … is this the type of behaviour that makes it a sport ?
After all , why do people really watch nascar, or any other car race ?
& you’re lying to yourself if you say it’s just to see a race with no accidents at all !
I believe if you advertised a snowmobile race through avalanch zones in passes & valley’s, you’d see , not only competiters, you see ‘fans’ up there as well cheering them on.
What’s that old saying… Its all in fun until someone loses an eye… then its a sport !
Some artistic activities can be quite physical and competitive too 🙂
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/3T1M3unglmA/0.jpg
So can sex, notso. 😛 Though sex usually isn’t competitive (intentionally, at least :P).
More… I think it’d be a lot more like golf…
everyone shshshshsh-ed.. for fear of killing the spectators as well.
You know, I joked about golf not being a sport until I got addicted to it two years ago. It’s very competitive, and you have to be really skilled to play well – or at least consistently. I always walk the course, so that helps with the workout factor too. 🙂 Though I prefer running for exercise.
sport /spɔrt, spoʊrt/ Show Spelled
[spawrt, spohrt] Show IPA
–noun
1. an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
2. a particular form of this, esp. in the out of doors.
3. diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime.
4. jest; fun; mirth; pleasantry: What he said in sport was taken seriously.
5. mockery; ridicule; derision: They made sport of him.
6. an object of derision; laughingstock.
7. something treated lightly or tossed about like a plaything.
8. something or someone subject to the whims or vicissitudes of fate, circumstances, etc.
9. a sportsman.
10. Informal . a person who behaves in a sportsmanlike, fair, or admirable manner; an accommodating person: He was a sport and took his defeat well.
11. Informal . a person who is interested in sports as an occasion for gambling; gambler.
12. Informal . a flashy person; one who wears showy clothes, affects smart manners, pursues pleasurable pastimes, or the like; a bon vivant.
So Op, your way wrong. it is a sport. so is golf, nose picking and making fun of idiots on love the way we bitch.
3. diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime.
uh oh… pleasant pastime?
I can think of plenty of ‘sports’ now….
none of which should be televised.
moi aussi zZz. is pie eating a sport?
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It’s not a sport. Never has been. Never will be.
Hockey is a sport. Wrestling is a sport. Judo is a sport. Basketball is a sport.
If snowmobiling is a sport then so is driving go-karts at an amusement park.
Kart racing or karting is a variant of open-wheel motor SPORT with small, open, four-wheeled vehicles called karts, go-karts, or gearbox/shifter karts
wiki sayeth so
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so now, let me get this right, yowere caught in an avalance. and it was caused from a snowmobile. hmmmm, funny that we never heard a thing about this o.p. did you die after being buried by all that snow? or mmaybe from all the llshit you are spewing on here? have you ever been on one of those critters? we are awaiting your answers. cause if you are, have not been, or never will be, then shut the fuck up about something that a fuck of a lot of people enjoy doing. up next, assholes whining about atv’s. and the same applies to you also. get a fucking life and have fun, get on a bike or mobile and let er fucking rip. then come back and tell us how bad they are.
LS, there was a snowmobiler caught in an avalanche and died in B.C. It happens every year in B.C. or Alberta. But you could also get caught in an avalanche skiing or snowboarding too, so I don’t know why OP chose to pick only snowmobiling.
i am going to hazard a guess newt. suckulous doesn’t pay attention to media…did i mention we had a raccoon as a pet when we lived in ottawa? he was saweet-this is not him, but close
http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwy…
AWWWW that’s my long lost cousin! 😀
I have seen many racoons in Halifax myself but all were roadkills. 🙁
shit notso, you can get killted by the sky falling too. just ask buddy with the clobster. he will tell you. and then we have the fucks from a few days ago, going on about no bonuses and shit. yes the fucking world will end if they don’t get their whiny little ass ways.
I’ve helped rescue at least 6 who crawled into empty dumpsters on the grounds of the apartment complex. Stoopid rakins.
http://www.showcase.ca/media/images/shows/…
Wait… there’s a gunning engine involved in darts?
LS, people die of lots of strange things…in Japan close to 200 people die each year from choking on rice cakes. 🙁
Ivan…among racoons, dumpster diving is considered a sport. It requires physical prowess and highly competitive. It was so nice of you to have rescued those poor souls that got trapped.
we have two out in the place behind the apartment….
HUGE suckers. They’re easily bigger than any cat I’ve ever seen… and I’ve seen one who’s belly dragged on the ground when he ‘walked’ …
it looked like an ugly penguin trying to slide over carpet….
Nice had sod all to do with it Newt. One of those pointy faced cats woke me up @ 2:00 AM with his scrabbling and squealing. This summer I got up @ 6:00, heard the now familiar trilling , stuck an aluminum ladder in the dumpster, took 2 steps back and 3 of the little beggars came out – like clowns from a Mini-Cooper.
they grow large at one year, we gave ours away to a rehab center. i haven’t seen many here but in toronto, the rakins and squirrels were bold and big
mmm minis http://www.kiaautosinfo.com/wp-content/upl…
sure y’all, raccies are as cute as all fuck, but if one of those little motherfuckers bite you, it’s 7 days of rabies shots. did i mention that the shots hurt worst than the bite? oh yeah, we have them over here too, cats fight with them all the time outside. not my cats, but the roaming ones.
they make some whack of noise, and when you get two or more, the racket is really bad. yes, i had one as a pet too, years ago, she came to my place in bridgewater, and got caught in a trap i had out for coyotes, yes, they are there too. anyhow, it took me about 4 hours, before i could even get close to take trap off her front paw.
old girl must have sensed that i wanted to help, so with a thick pair of leather gloves on, the type they used in the early 30’s for motorcycles, i got trap opened. she stayed put, and even let me fix her paw up. i felt really bad, so i talked to her, and cleaned it, and even put a fucking bandage on it.she stayed all that summer and falll. went away just before dec. and came back in the spring, with 4 babies raccies trailing behind. which she left with me, and went away and never came back.
so here i am, stuck with 4 babies, and no idea how to raise them. nat. resources was no help, but the net proved a gold mine of info.they stayed til fall, then went off to find some mates, and came back for almost two years after. and they are playfully destructive little fuckers too. but don’t go trying to pet one, or you will be sorry.
Where I come from, we either scare off raccoons or shoot them with a BB/pellet gun.
http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chick…
you wasted this much time on semantics?
incorrectly, i might add?
God, let people be, nazi….