Is scuba diving a sport?

[SubAquatix]

I guess Sport Fishing is going to have to rename their activity as well.


I don't know what to call SCUBA diving, or care, but I'm going to keep on doing it.



Bob

Yep, Hunting of any kind is out the window as well! LOL

 

[Nemrod]

Sorry - definitely not a sport, it's an activity. Just like canoeing, kayaking, swimming, snorkeling, fishing, camping, hiking, snowshoeing, XS skiing, etc. etc. etc. It is what it is - fun.

Hmm, canoeing, kayaking and swimming are definitely sports in some circles and can be competitive sports. Swimming competitively is definitely a sport. Fishing can be a sport which is why it is called sport fishing. XC skiing, isn't that an Olympic sport along with swimming? Is track and field not sport, if so, how does it differ from cycling or swimming that those would not be sports?

I think you confuse football and baseball and basketball with sport, they are just entertainment, especially when done for money, not even sure if I would consider them a sport, more the modern equivalent to the Roman Colosseum games. A pacifier for the public to keep them under control and distracted from reality.

You must have a different dictionary than I do.

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[boulderjohn]

As predicted, this became another "my definition of the word sport is better than yours" thread.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

And finally welcome to golf. For my full take on golf, I refer you elsewhere in the book, but let it just be said golf is a game that might possibly be fun, if it could be played alone. But it's the vacuous, striving, superficial, male-bonding joiners one has to associate with that makes it such a repulsive pastime. And it is decidedly not a sport. Period.
From George Carlin's book Napalm and Silly Putty

... from another famous author ...

“If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-granduncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfibul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf was invented at the same moment.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

 

[swimmer_spe]

Auto racing is considered a sport. Dart throwing is considered a sport.

 

[TMHeimer]

Who really considers dart throwing a sport? We haven't had a poll for a while.

 

[gcarter]

Who TF cares whether it is considered a sport? Why does it matter?

I dive because I enjoy it. That's all.

How others classify the activity is not material to my enjoyment of it.

My enjoyment of it does not require that I classify or compartmentalize it.

It just is.

It takes me to a Zen state.

The answer is 42.

 

[drbill]

A sport? Not IMHO. An activity? Certainly. A lifestyle? No... life itself!

 

[BDSC]

Is there still a magazine called "Sport Diver"? If so, don't believe anything you read in it. They have already lied to you on the cover.

 

[LeadTurn_SD]

Is there still a magazine called "Sport Diver"? If so, don't believe anything you read in it. They have already lied to you on the cover.

When I started diving, we called ourselves "Sport Divers".... to differentiate ourselves from Commercial Divers and Navy Divers.

Is diving a sport? I dunno.

What I do know is if a given dive starts feeling Sporty??

That means I have done something badly wrong :shocked2:

Best wishes.