Darts is not a sport. Period.
I used to have a similar opinion about what things should or shouldn’t count as sports. I took a course in college about sports and I learned that there are actually legal ramifications to whether we call things a sport or not. For instance, there are people who might not want to call cheerleading a sport, but if it is not, then schools are not required to provide adequate protection (like pads for falling) for them. I think we can agree that there is definitively a possibility of getting hurt in cheerleading and so equipment like that should be available.
That to me speaks more of a failing in the legal system than anything else, though cheerleading in particular is 100% a sport.
What about pool/snooker/billiards?
Pool? No Snooker? No Billiards? Mmm… I’m on the ledge about that one
Same with swimming and soccer
Darts is at least physical, chess is not a sport. It’s a game.
Neither darts nor chess are sports
I’m with OP on this one.
In my view, sports are games where pure physicality (speed/power/endurance) confers a major advantage. All physical games reward coordination and precision, but I would only call the subset of those that also reward physicality sports.
