You're still sidestepping my original question, but to answer yours here is the definition of "intellectual" from the Cambridge Dictionary[1]: -relating to you

You're still sidestepping my original question, but to answer yours here is the definition of "intellectual" from the Cambridge Dictionary[1]: -relating to your ability to think and understand things, especially complicated ideas -very educated and interested in studying and other activities that involve careful thinking and mental effort What do you find intellectual about acting or chess? The same almost assuredly applies to football, but it can be difficult to see if you don't even give sports any consideration in that regard. You seem to be dismissing the mental aspects of sports because of the physicality involved, but physicality is a huge part of acting and even chess puts huge physical stress on one's body. People have literally died playing chess due to the physical stress. Subjects don't fall into a binary categorization of physical or mental. Sports, like many disciplines of art, requires both to varying degrees. [1] - https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/intellectual https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/intel...