Are competitive shooters athletes?

It's a pretty good joke, you're just a faggot who thinks running is a sport.

>you're just a faggot who thinks running is a sport.
It is though, the fact that it's even in the olympics etc cements that.
Not all sports need to have complex rules.

Are esports sports?

Running has been a sport as long as there have been people you stupid fuck.

In the literal and linguistic sense no. It's that simple. This isn't to say that what they do isn't a sport or isn't competitive or that some of them arn't athletic. They are sportsmen, they are competitors, they are professionals and they are proficient in their given field. It just doesn't require them to be that athletic.

Someone hasn't seen powerlifters competing in the trashier federations. The superheavyweights there look like they're one cheeseburger away from a heart attack, and that's before they even waddle up to the weight in their gorillion-ply denim lifting suit and wraps.
Or Sarah Robles, on the US Olympic Weightlifting team. She's a fucking amorphous blob and doesn't even put up good weight for it.

>In the literal and linguistic sense no. It's that simple.

dictionary.com/browse/athlete

>a person trained or gifted in exercises or contests involving physical agility, stamina, or strength; a participant in a sport, exercise, or game requiring physical skill.
Competitive shooting is definitely a physical skill, even if strength and stamina and not major factors. I would argue agility is in gact a pretty big factor, nothing burns the clock like moving inefficiently.

Olympic ones are for sure. Extrapolate front that.

I mean the ones with all the skiing and other racing movement.

>getting what could be a better score or outplaying someone doesn't make you a better athlete because you're fat and/or out of shape
some fatty beat you in basketball in school?

etymonline.com/word/athlete

Yes. So are pro gamers and anglers by the original meanings of the word. Of course originally their competitions were physical displays of skill or street brawls with studded gloves. The problem we have with defining the word in modern contexts is that it isn't really our word. We have a semiotic gap in the English language where we're struggling to create a new word for the separate concept and we're trying to do it with superfluous adjectives so it's annoying everyone. So the physical merits of their exercise (sport shooters) is debatable, but their proficiency and the legitimacy of their competitions is accepted by our society. For the purposes of demonstration I will label them "indolent competitors." That's a relatively accurate description of their mechanical activities but it is both too complex and far too grating to enter common use. We're going to have to coin a new term to associate with the idea if we want to ever settle this. "Fartknockers" is a term that has fallen by the wayside in recent years and it's earned a revival in a new context as an ameliorated word for technical sportsmen. Any other votes?

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>Triggered fatty
Nah fatties can't beat anyone at sports, the whole point of sports is that physical ability is a requirement, tubby.

No

I think this is pretty fair, great competitive shooters aren't necessarily athletic but I'd argue the lines get blurred in uspsa/ipsc and multigun

If someone asked me, I would consider action shooting a physical sport. I feel less so about static shooting, but then again you have sports like javelin, shotput, etc that are sort of borderline as well (yes they require strength)

I'm not fat, honey

Yes.

This always annoyed me with IPSC (I compete). People who are fat as fuck who can barely run the course, but still are decent shots.. One would think they had some self-respect and paid attention to what they eat and how they exercise, but nope - fat fucks all over the place.

I'd say that IPSC is a sport, but you aren't an athlete in any way for participating.

youtube.com/watch?v=Ns6YSvCsVJM

are e-sports real sports?