Video Games Should Not Be A Sport

People have argued that video games should be a sport for the past couple years. Their arguments are that people need to be moving for an activity to be a sport. Those people then point out all of the sports that do include physical movement. What they fail to do is list those sports that do not have movement. There are many sports that do not require the player to move, one of those sports being chess. Video games have been slowly trying to make its way onto that list as well. Video games have moved to the point where they should be counted as a sport. The main argument for Video games not being a sport is that sports require the player to be physically active. This is not true in the very definition of the word sport. On the official dictionary website it is stated that a sport is ”an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.” (Dictionary.com) By using the word or in the definition, the activity does not have to require physical activity to be called a sport. A sport must have skill or
When a game does not have the player thinking then people may consider video games as just a hobby and not a sport. Some video games that are considered e-sports today are games like League of Legends and Counterstrike Go. These games require teams of players to work together and strategize different ways of winning. Players will need to strategize on the spot, making their brain think with others on their team. Not only will the brain be working on different strategize and outcomes, but the player must communicate with others on their team if they want to be successful. This can drain the brain and make the player exhausted. Video games do indeed test the player’s way of thinking and sometimes leaving the player mentally