Nascar Is Not A Sport Essay

What is a sport? According to google a sport is “an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment”. However in my opinion a sport doesn't need to be physical to be called a sport, i think it's just a activity that its competitive. You also don't necessarily need multiple people to play a sport in my opinion, i think that competing with yourself to improve a specific aspect such as time. People will always argue over what activities are and are not sports because it's personal opinion.

First let's talk about hunting, the activity of tracking and killing an animal. Hunting is a sport because there are several different ways to compete with yourself,
nature, and other people hunting. The main way people compete is from how the animal is scored, such as how a deer is scored based off its antlers. Many people also consider it a sport due to how active it is, some hunts require people to walk many miles while carrying a lot of equipment. Another way people compete is through tracking, how well they can pick up on hints to find the animal such as a blood trail. Some people would disagree because it is not directly competing with another human, but still the fact remains you are competing in a physical activity for entertainment of you and the fellow hunters that are with you.

Now how about NASCAR?
NASCAR is racing, people all using similarly efficient cars to compete the laps required then cross the finish line first. People consider nascar to be a sport because of how entertaining it is to see humans competing at an equal level to judge the skill of each person individually. There really is only one main goal in nascar, simply win the race. This means there are very few things to actually judge each race on other then the winner and fastest times. Some would argue that being forced to sit in a very hot uncomfy car for a hour so makes it seem like it's physically demanding enough to be considered a sport as well. It has been considered a sport since 1948, and most likely will never see a
change.

Over the last 100 years skating has grown into a massive world wide sport. Skating is the activity of using a skateboard to do tricks, stunts, or race for time. Most all of the time in skateboarding people will compete with personal records, and with other individual skaters.
Most of the time this activity is scored by a panel of judges, you will get points for the difficulty of the trick as well as how efficient you do it. Skating is also a very physically demanding sport requiring good endurance, as well as precise control over your whole body. Being that this activity is both physically demanding, very entertaining, and competitive with other participants it is considered a sport without a doubt.

Fishing, america's favorite father-son pastime has grown into a universal sport.
Fishing a activity in which people use a fishing pole and bait to lure in and hook fish. Fishermen have to have great knowledge of fish spawns as well as good knowledge of the traits of each fish to understand where and how to catch them. Fishing is normally judged by the size of the fish, you take the baseline average size of a species then give points based on how much larger the fish is. The second way to judge fishing is by the pure quantity of a specific species caught in which they are ranked by the total number of fish caught in a given time. When fishing for large fish, most often in the ocean, be prepared for a struggle because fishing can also be a physically demanding sport. Fishing is considered a sport because of how much it relies on knowledge and physical strength to beat your opponents in the specific goal
assigned.

Football has become one of the most watched sports in America. The goal of football is to follow the strict rule set and get into the opponent's end zone with the ball. Football is highly regulated with rules which puts teams and players on the same base level. In order to play football you also need to be athletic which means strong, fast, and flexible, so the sport is physically demanding. The main goal of the game is simple, Get more points then the opponent which are giving for touchdowns, and field goal kicks. Football is considered a sport not only because of how competitive it is among fans and players but also because of how physically and mentally demanding the game can become.