Is Bowling a Sport?

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If you bowl fast enough it can be a heck of a sweaty workout.
Swinging a 14 to 16# ball over 40-60 times. Lunges. Core work. Certainly finger and hand grip strength.
This day my wife recorded 3 of my strikes.
One of the games, that day, she beat me 194 to 169. On the plus side, my 4 games were all within a 10 pin range. Some days I have a 100+ pin range from low to high.

 
Had a friend who worked at a bowling alley. He was very good. Watched him bowl 13 strikes in a row just walking up and grabbing a ball.

Pretty cool game/sport whatever you want to call it.
 
It IS a sport when this guy is throwing it down :cool:
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IMO a sport requires that you/your team has the ability to:
1) score points
2) prevent your opponent from scoring points

So bowling, golf, figure skating, skiing...not sports
 
IMO a sport requires that you/your team has the ability to:
1) score points
2) prevent your opponent from scoring points

So bowling, golf, figure skating, skiing...not sports

So you would not consider "shooting sports," sports?

I don't mean that, btw, to be snarky as it might come across in writing - I guess I'm asking whether you are making a distinction between a "sport" defined as you did versus a "competition" which would involve some form of #1, but not #2, such that golf, bowling, darts, 3-gun events, track-and-field would be competitions?

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There might also be middle ground areas wherein one exerts psychological pressure (either by performance in the moment or even by style) rather than physical restraint on an opponent.
 
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I like watching bowling, and baseball, and golf. The contestants dress in a snappy manner and all are equally adept at inducing a nap.
 
If you bowl fast enough it can be a heck of a sweaty workout.
Swinging a 14 to 16# ball over 40-60 times. Lunges. Core work. Certainly finger and hand grip strength.
This day my wife recorded 3 of my strikes.
One of the games, that day, she beat me 194 to 169. On the plus side, my 4 games were all within a 10 pin range. Some days I have a 100+ pin range from low to high.



@fishgutzy ,,,,That's pretty good considering you are using the wrong hand.
 
IMO a sport requires that you/your team has the ability to:
1) score points
2) prevent your opponent from scoring points

So bowling, golf, figure skating, skiing...not sports

Then chess and checkers would be a sport? Poker would be a sport? But running races would not? Is that what separates a sport from a game?
 
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It’s a game, not a sport. No I don’t feel like trying to justify that because then we’ll have to talk about cheerleading and boxing. Just my $.02.
 
Shooting sports do have a way of preventing the opponent from scoring points. But it is within the rules in only one shooting sport (dueling).

You missed the one I was going to mention twice, but deleted before posting, which is "combat arms," that sport called war.
 
To quote an old joke....I don't believe I'da told that!
dude, considering that the OP @fishgutzy posted a thread with him at a bowling alley - IM GOOD.

Had to take two PE courses in college, due to time I didnt have a lot of options - semester 1: Weightlifting, semester 2: Bowling.
Bowling was hard as heck because the teacher was a jerk
 
Wow. You have a more limited scope than even I do. I thought I was rough.

That means there are no shooting sports.
All track and field events are not sports.

But checkers and badminton are sports.

I'm not sure that what I said correlates with checkers and chess. You win or lose, but you don't keep score per se. Badminton qualifies like tennis. When you are keeping your opponent from scoring in shooting, it is a bit more serious than a sport. :)
 
I'm not sure that what I said correlates with checkers and chess. You win or lose, but you don't keep score per se. Badminton qualifies like tennis. When you are keeping your opponent from scoring in shooting, it is a bit more serious than a sport. :)

Checkers and chess, you keep your opponent from 'scoring'; or at least winning. You do not keep score and count points, but by having more (key) pieces than the other guy, you win. Just trying to keep semantics real and all...:D
 
I got credit in college because of bowling.

Ha! I did as well. I realized I was going to be one unit shy for my BA. I figured what better 1 unit class for a semester then drinking beer at the bowling alley. Don't care what anyone says but I had fun, got to hang out with an old retired PBA bowler (teacher) and even bowled a 220 once while knocking down some disgusting pitchers of Miller. College tuition well spent :D
 
How do you find volleyball shoes in men’s sizes?
I keed I keeed!

Truth be told, I didn't like it. We had a crap-ton of options, and I chose poorly. A lot of Sorority Sues and ECU football players, and it was very cliquish. It was easy, mind you, just...not fun.

My roommate/best friend took racquetball, loved it.
 
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