>>>Would you agree that all sports can be games but a game is not necessarily a sport?
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>>Absolutely. That's sort of what I've been trying to get at. Anything enjoyable that is competitive is a game, but for me, in order to call it a sport, you need athleticism, and you need to be competing against an actual opponent capable of affecting the outcome both offensively and defensively. For example, Chess is competitive and has both offense and defense, but it's not very athletic, so I don't see it as a sport. On the other hand, golf may have a sort of athletic component, but you compete only against yourself. The fact that you get a score and somebody comes along and compares your score to somebody else's score may be an attempt to create some sort of fake competitive component, but it's just an afterthought and not really part of the actual game itself.
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>Ok we agree on that. But I don't agree with your definition of sport. I think 99.99% of the people would agree that your typical board game, including Twister, or card any game, is not a sport. But I think that 99.99% of the people would agree with me that things like swimming, golf and running is a sport.

You're probably right in the sense of a dictionary definition of 'sport', but for me, a sport needs to have real competition. Comparing to scores or two times that have really nothing much to do with each other other than that somebody wants to compare them, does not make it a sport (imho). Heck, you don't even need a second person to engage in those so-called 'sports'.

I mean, where would it stop? Is an art competition, or a photography competition a sport, just because somebody is comparing people's efforts? Not for me.

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>BTW to execute a PROPER golf swing, one must perform a very athletic and coordinated move.