Should Video Gaming Be Recognized As A Sport?

[guapo2003]

Honestly, no because it is a hobby, even though all sports are, video games is something you don't have to move around, like with sports you do. Anyone can play video games, but not just anyone, can play sports.

 

[MonkeyFightSquad]

Video games are not sports, and they never will be

 

[Dragonfly]

Well, chess is a recognised sport. You have to have logical skills for it, instead of athletical skills.
But considering video games in general would overdo it. There are a lot of games you don't even need to think while playing.
Maybe you could call a particular sort of games a sport which is competitive and where you need a special skill for :thinking:

Video games per se are no sport, however.

 

[banders]

No because your just laying or sitting there moving nothing but your fingers. Sports are supposed to make a person active and move around.

 

[The Joker]

With the innovation of the interaction with the Wii, I'd say yes. Sure, there isn't must strength involved but there's plenty of endurance and thought process in it to make it competitive.

 

[nonoitall]

If it's debatable that chess is a sport, I don't think video games have much of a chance of being considered one either.

 

[Seth]

They actually did show video game competitions on TV.

They have a big Madden Football tournament and their used to be this reality show with contestants on this bus visiting like NFL players and other players to play madden with them, they would also compete to stay on the bus and advance to the big tournament. I probably explained it horribly, it was something like that, though I only watched a couple of episodes. It was fairly entertaining even though I am not a big Madden player.

 

[TriforceHunter]

No, Sports are physical, video games - most of the time- are not. Simple as that.

Although I do find videogame tournaments entertaining, Mostly Pokemon and fighting game related. I wanna go to EVO someday.

 

[GanonSlayr]

"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. " (from dictionary.com). Video gaming is not a sport. Whatsoever.

 

[fredfan11]

No because a sport is actually physical. But if it were than I'd be pretty good at sports!

 

[WW IsDa Bombchu]

I think that there is no way video games can be classified as a sport. Forget the thumb exercise thing as well. I've played video games for years, and my thumbs are no stronger than the next guy.

 

[n3rdatheart]

No, it really shouldn't. I mean, I don't know about you, but for me, wrapping my self in a blanket and button mashing doesn't take athletic ability...Not even the games on the Wii require actual athletic ability....and the Kinect just requires a lot of motion, and no skill. So you don't really ever get both, and so gaming, while it can be considered a competition, can't really be considered a sport....