Is climbing a Sport?

[ciaran]

If you are running after a bus are you doing a sport ?

If you are a boy racer and love speeding in your automobile regularly are you motor racing ?

If you get shitfaced and jump around on a nightclub floor are you competition dancing ?

Being physically fit doesn't mean the activity you are doing is a sport, people who go to gyms to work out and run on treadmills and lift weights, they aren't considered to be doing a sport

Climbing is WAY more than a sport

[Kevin_Griffin]

Not a sport.

[Stephen McMullan]

Its a sport if you want it to be but no, not for me.

[trish fox]

Ciaran, you've missed my point entirely.

And I agree with how Stephen put it- it's up to the individual, for me, climbing is a sport.

[chris rooney]

a sport with only 2 grades Trish?

[trish fox]

Grades aside Chris - it's still a sport...

For me.

[Stephen McMullan]

And I agree with how Stephen put it

Yay, I win! 

[Dave Flanagan]

You can't win arguing isn't a sport.

[joe purser]

  There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games ~ Ernest Hemingway

[theo.mooney]

have you ever watched a Spelling Championship online? now thats a sport to be contended with!
for me, climbing is a sport. it seems that people have a phobia of the word 'sport'...... whats this about?