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Definition of the English word sport: - a game, competition, or activity needing physical effort and skill that is played or done according to rules, for enjoy

Definition of the English word sport: - a game, competition, or activity needing physical effort and skill that is played or done according to rules, for enjoyment and/or as a job - all types of physical activity that people do to keep healthy or for enjoyment https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/sport https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/sport

Dah00n 3y ago
Chess and dart is also a sport, and I don't see those as requiring physical effort and skill. Skill, yes. Physical effort? No. I'm not surprised Cambridge cannot create a proper definition of sport. Road cyclists training on the road train their skills, how? I see no difference in me riding on the road versus Jonas Vingegaard in the "training skill department". Nah, it is recreation or transport in my opinion. Not a sport. The problem is exactly that: When road cyclists think they are doing sports on an open road, they create problems which often end in road rage and sometimes in deaths. The cycling community needs to look inward. They behave like the rotten part of motorcycling. I stopped riding with other cyclists and motorcyclist for this reason. They are a danger to themselves and each other.
avianlyric 3y ago
You know people also cycle for neither of those reasons? Unless we’re gonna start calling walking to the shops a sport as well. I cycle purely for transportation, because it’s cheaper and faster than the alternatives. I certainly don’t compete while cycling to work, and don’t cycle for enjoyment or to keep healthy. It certainly hasn’t kept me healthy give a driver seriously injured while cycling to work, hospitalised me for week, fractured multiple vertebrae making me unable to exercise for 2 months, and resulted in my taking 3 months off work to deal with the injuries and trauma. So yeah, there’s plenty of people out there that cycle in a manner that doesn’t meet your dictionary definition of a sport.

Dah00n 3y ago

Chess and dart is also a sport, and I don't see those as requiring physical effort and skill. Skill, yes. Physical effort? No. I'm not surprised Cambridge cannot create a proper definition of sport. Road cyclists training on the road train their skills, how? I see no difference in me riding on the road versus Jonas Vingegaard in the "training skill department". Nah, it is recreation or transport in my opinion. Not a sport. The problem is exactly that: When road cyclists think they are doing sports on an open road, they create problems which often end in road rage and sometimes in deaths. The cycling community needs to look inward. They behave like the rotten part of motorcycling. I stopped riding with other cyclists and motorcyclist for this reason. They are a danger to themselves and each other.

avianlyric 3y ago

You know people also cycle for neither of those reasons? Unless we’re gonna start calling walking to the shops a sport as well. I cycle purely for transportation, because it’s cheaper and faster than the alternatives. I certainly don’t compete while cycling to work, and don’t cycle for enjoyment or to keep healthy. It certainly hasn’t kept me healthy give a driver seriously injured while cycling to work, hospitalised me for week, fractured multiple vertebrae making me unable to exercise for 2 months, and resulted in my taking 3 months off work to deal with the injuries and trauma. So yeah, there’s plenty of people out there that cycle in a manner that doesn’t meet your dictionary definition of a sport.