Poll: Is bridge a sport?

Do you consider Bridge a sport?

  • Yes, I sweat just dealing cards.

    Votes: 18 10.3%

  • No, it's a bridge too far

    Votes: 156 89.7%
  • Total voters
    174
What's your definition of sport then MrMoonX? I think bridge could be categorised as a "brain sport". It certainly takes effort, skill and mental effort to be good at the game. Anyway, if we assume that the brain is a muscle then it stands to reason that it is getting a work out whilst someone plays bridge.

What is your view of darts, golf and lawn bowls for example?
 
Ahleckz said:
What's your definition of sport then MrMoonX? I think bridge could be categorised as a "brain sport". It certainly takes effort, skill and mental effort to be good at the game. Anyway, if we assume that the brain is a muscle then it stands to reason that it is getting a work out whilst someone plays bridge.

What is your view of darts, golf and lawn bowls for example?
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A sport should involve some form of physical activity! Darts and bowls not a sport imo. Golf is a sport as you actually ache afterwards.

The brain is certainly not a muscle! Lol
 
You see no value in intellectual competition ?

You say the brain is not a muscle but it is extremely like one in particular it can be trained and the more you use it the stronger it becomes.
 
For me to play a sport you have to be described as "sporty", so that's darts and snooker off the table.

I know what the dictionary says, but by that definition sport is playing your mates at FIFA and so is 'Soggy Biscuit'
 
MrMoonX said:
Don't get me started on "E-sports" what a load of **** no wonder kids are so fat
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dowie said:
'mind sports' are beneficial to people

there are health benefits to them too, especially for people in old age
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Call them something else then but it's not sport! If people think sitting playing cards is a sport then they feel they have done something sporty when they have done sweet naff all. Look at darts! If ever there was a shining example of a non sport filled with obesity it's darts
 
D.P. said:
Indeed, chess is defined as sport and Bridge is every bit as challenging, if not more so.

Plus Bridge is an amazingly fun game that deserve much higher recognition.
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Chess isn't a sport either though, and the issue here is that for some reason people get it in their heads that something has to be classified as a sport because it lends out validity, and if you deny that out is a sport then you are trying to discredit it some how.

Chess isn't a sport, Bridge isn't, video games aren't sports, but they still are what they are regardless of whether some official body says they are or not.
 
MrMoonX said:
Call them something else then but it's not sport! If people think sitting playing cards is a sport then they feel they have done something sporty when they have done sweet naff all. Look at darts! If ever there was a shining example of a non sport filled with obesity it's darts
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could say that about some mental 'illnesses', I mean some of them are diagnosed only by their behavioral symptoms and don't have any real physical symptoms that can be tested/detected... maybe they should be called something else since they're not 'real' illnesses
 
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