Do you consider hunting a sport?

[Mr Cool]

Just wondering what your opinion is on it. I do not consider it a sport, not b/c I am against killing animals b/c I am not I eat meat 4 times a day I just dont consider it a sport or see whats to boast about when you have a high powered rifle and your sitting in a tree... that is just my take on it.

[Trunks]

I don't consider it a sport... In sports you should be active most of the time. In hunting you are basically sitting in a tree stand for 6 hours...

[Eric]

I don't consider it a sport... In sports you should be active most of the time. In hunting you are basically sitting in a tree stand for 6 hours...

Not true, depends on what kinda hunting your doing..

[KittyCat72]

Hunting is not a sport. It isn't very athletic... and it's cruel to do it for fun or to compete. (if you're going to eat what you kill, it is not quite as bad)

[LiNuX]

sports and athleticism doesn't always go together lol

but hunting isn't really a sport - more of an activity

in Dick Cheney's Case - hunting is the time you can shoot a guy in the face and get away with it

[Samus-Fan]

I don't hunt, I don't like the idea of killing things for enjoyment.
However, I do consider it a sport.
It takes skill, may be sitting in a tree most of the time, but it IS a sport.
Just cause you sit for a while doesn't make it not a sport, look at professional gaming. Think they get some exercise? No, but it is a sport.

[Trunks]

I didn't even know Professional gaming was a sport. I always considered it as an activity like hunting.

[Samus-Fan]

I didn't even know Professional gaming was a sport. I always considered it as an activity like hunting.

Nope, it's a sport.
Dominoes is also a sport, saw it on ESPN 2
Ping pong, or Killerspin on ESPN is a sport

[Trunks]

I can understand ping pong, but not the others. Hmmm that's interesting.

[Scott]

You eat meat 4 times a day? I'm trying to figure out a way you could reasonably do that and survive more than 3 months. I can't.

[rukisuto]

I don't think hunting is a sport, but I do think shooting is.
Shooting takes skill, hunting just takes patience.

[LiNuX]

I don't think hunting is a sport, but I do think shooting is.
Shooting takes skill, hunting just takes patience.

not unless you're dick cheney, if you can't find the birds, you have people around you...lol i just loved that story when it came out

and shooting is a sport in some places - especially speed shooting, the one with the manual cocking of the hand gun

[rukisuto]

not unless you're dick cheney, if you can't find the birds, you have people around you...lol i just loved that story when it came out

and shooting is a sport in some places - especially speed shooting, the one with the manual cocking of the hand gun

I still find it funny.
They talked about it on I Love the New Millenium.
They were like "Only Dick Cheney can shoot someone in the face and then have THEM apologize to HIM for it."
lol.

[Kujo]

Hunting is something you just do when your bored. It is NOT a sport. Sports + athleticism DO go hand in hand. If you're a professional Ping-Pong player... guess what. You're an unemployed douchebag who is really good at ping-pong. Just because something happens to be on ESPN does not make it a sport. POKER is NOT a sport. Its a card game. Saying Poker is a sport is like saying Uno is a sport.

[Samus-Fan]

Sport Audio Help /spɔrt, spoʊrt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[spawrt, spohrt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. 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.
2. a particular form of this, esp. in the out of doors.
3. diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime.
4. jest; fun; mirth; pleasantry: What he said in sport was taken seriously.
5. mockery; ridicule; derision: They made sport of him.
6. an object of derision; laughingstock.
7. something treated lightly or tossed about like a plaything.
8. something or someone subject to the whims or vicissitudes of fate, circumstances, etc.
9. a sportsman.
10. Informal. a person who behaves in a sportsmanlike, fair, or admirable manner; an accommodating person: He was a sport and took his defeat well.
11. Informal. a person who is interested in sports as an occasion for gambling; gambler.
12. Informal. a flashy person; one who wears showy clothes, affects smart manners, pursues pleasurable pastimes, or the like; a bon vivant.
13. Biology. an organism or part that shows an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation.
14. Obsolete. amorous dalliance.
–adjective
15. of, pertaining to, or used in sports or a particular sport.
16. suitable for outdoor or informal wear: sport clothes.
–verb (used without object)
17. to amuse oneself with some pleasant pastime or recreation.
18. to play, frolic, or gambol, as a child or an animal.
19. to engage in some open-air or athletic pastime or sport.
20. to trifle or treat lightly: to sport with another's emotions.
21. to mock, scoff, or tease: to sport at suburban life.
22. Botany. to mutate.
–verb (used with object)
23. to pass (time) in amusement or sport.
24. to spend or squander lightly or recklessly (often fol. by away).
25. Informal. to wear, display, carry, etc., esp. with ostentation; show off: to sport a new mink coat.
26. Archaic. to amuse (esp. oneself).

[Mr Cool]

You eat meat 4 times a day? I\'m trying to figure out a way you could reasonably do that and survive more than 3 months. I can\'t.

I lift weights, chicken is very healthy but that\'s considered poultry I guess but to me it\'s meat lol

[LiNuX]

I lift weights, chicken is very healthy but that\'s considered poultry I guess but to me it\'s meat lol

i lift weights too and run on a treadmill everyday (about 2 miles avg a day) and i only eat meat at most 2 times a day but usually just once lol - water and sports drinks gives me most of my energy

and speaking of hunting, my friend was just telling me he had deer meat for dinner the other night cuz his dad and uncle brought home some hunted meat lol

[Mr Cool]

Nevermind, I just looked it up, chicken is considered meat.

[glenofimaal]

i don't consider hunting to be a sport

i think it is wrong for people to shoot other animals

[LemonRising]

Depends for me, I would say.
Hunting, in general, I consider a sport.
It requires skill and has rules and regulations.

I don't like the fact that some animals are just hunted. Shot down and killed, the end. Though I know most hunters end up eating what they shoot, in my mind it evens it out.
My step-grandfather hunts deer, and eats deer. Therefore I'm not disgusted or repulsed by it.
Hunting is an ancient practice, humans have always eaten meat, and in my eyes, needed it to live, so naturally we kill things to eat, just like other animals. Humans though, are not particularly fast or strong, but hunt with our brains. We created tools and methods to get meat.
In my eyes Hunting is a just continuing that. Though now-a-days we have auto-meat, packaged for us, I think hunting brings a tribute to our past lives and what we've done to get this far.

Sorry if I've read "too far into it", but I do think it's always been in our roots and always will be especially because it's in our blood.

-runs off- 8D

[alpha]

Ive never really considered it a sport. but I can see the argument for it.