As the tiltle says what do you play. I play fieldhockey

I play soccer as much as I can.

Volleyball.

Cricket, golf, indoor soccer, and indoor netball.

Ultimate Frisbee (rock on), and baseball. I stopped playing baseball for frisbee this year.

None, really, but I'll play football (the real football none of this girly american nonsense ;) ) when the chance presents itself (goalkeeper extraordinaire, me ;) )

I used to play Cricket, Rugby Union, Table Tennis and Fence, now I play Golf

<- a geek doesn't play sport

Hockey, golf and baseball.

I used to play football. But I got out of school and that ended.

Blew out my rotator cuff when I was 15 and haven't been able to play any sports since then!

I feel for ya Ilmater's Suffering. I tore two tendons(Rotator cuff and another one) in my throwing arm a couple years ago...surgery on the one and extensive rehab on both..Am now starting varsity pitcher for my high school baseball team and one of the 4 starters for my American Legion team.

I'll play basketball and football(american) for fun as well. Played soccer until i was 12 or so then there were no teams in the area so i quit playing.

I like a round of golf (although I suck).
I'm pretty good at pool and play it often. I also like snooker but am not very good at it.
I play football now and again, but I don't have the fitness to play it properly anymore!

I like a game of cricket as well. Don't often get the time or chance though (not many places around here where I can get a game either). I can touch 80mph with my pacers :) . Shame I'm about as accurate as a fart!

Are pool, snooker, golf and the like actually sports? To me sports should involve some form of physical exertion, but others may view this differently I guess.

Me, I do triathlon. That means a lot of running, biking and swimming, though I mostly bike lately.

A sport is any activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. :thumb:

Even darts is a sport. I play that too.

What is netball?

So counterstrike is sport too? yeah i play that.

Netball is a game that is really only played to any extent in England, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, and South Africa. It's like basketball but without dribbling. It's primarily a women's sport. New Zealand are the current World Champions and Commonwealth Games gold medallists.

Basketball, and I also practise bodybuilding, but not at a competitive level.

So counterstrike is sport too? yeah i play that. The difference is there is a physical dimension to darts, snooker or pool however undemanding it may be on your body. Think about the technique involved to be consistently accurate over the course of a match. It's the same deal with bowls, or shooting (an Olympic event). Physical fitness isn't that important but there is a physical emphasis on technique, precision, etc.

Gaming is purely mental. How you press the buttons to win the game is irrelevant. It's the same with chess, which some people insist on calling a sport. It's purely mental. How you move the pieces (not the same as where you move them) is irrelevant to the final result. As such it's a game.

Cycling and swimming :D

used to do both yoga and horseback riding waaay back and think would like to staet again sometime in the future...

The difference is there is a physical dimension to darts, snooker or pool however undemanding it may be on your body. Think about the technique involved to be consistently accurate over the course of a match. It's the same deal with bowls, or shooting (an Olympic event). Physical fitness isn't that important but there is a physical emphasis on technique, precision, etc.

Gaming is purely mental. How you press the buttons to win the game is irrelevant. It's the same with chess, which some people insist on calling a sport. It's purely mental. How you move the pieces (not the same as where you move them) is irrelevant to the final result. As such it's a game.There actually is a physical component to gaming. Much like darts you still have to aim for a game like CS (by moving the mouse around and pressing directional keys).

And whenever I see those guys in the Embassy who are easily twice my weight, I find it very hard to think of darts as a sport.

Fencing (epee) and Muay Thai (kickboxing), Cycling, simming and some weightlifting :mad:

@Harbourboy: we used to play netball at school back in Argentina and as you said, it was mostly played by girls, so it was a shame if you were seen playing it, but we didn't care at all.

I used to play basketball, now, occasionaly. I play soccer; often table tennis and pool, although I would love to play snooker but there aren't any tables around here; sometimes I enjoy some chess games with a couple of friends who can't beat me :nono: :grin:

henkie,

But a computer can play a game like Counterstrike. Hence, it is not a sport.

I used to be a competitive fencer, then hung up the epees and took up long-distance cycling when I hooked up with Velcro (amazing what meeing a new bf while riding can do for your mileage! ;) ). Since becoming a mom, tho', my primary sport is kid-schlepping.

We do some cycling with the kids but not as much as we'd like. We do more walking in the woods, and now Arlyn has taken it into his head that he wants to hike the Appalachian Trail (http://www.appalachiantrail.org/site/c.jkLXJ8MQKtH/b.1423119/k.BEA0/Home.htm) someday. We'd better start training!

Is 'Velcro' short for something or a nickname? :hmm:

LOL, BA. Velcro is my hubby's nick here on the BoM. He doesn't post much. ;)

Ah, I see! I was just thinking he had cruel parents or something :D .

Get him to post more :) .

Well, I guess it's better to be in a relationship with a 'Velcro' than with a 'Teflon,' right? :shake:

As for sports, up to last year I played soccer with an intramural grad student team, but now just go to the gym. Thinking of taking up rockclimbing again (tho that's not a sport) or rowing...

Barmy believe it or not counter-strike is seen as a sport by many.... www.caleague.com (http://www.caleague.com) ...www.gotfrag.com .... people earn a salary playing counter strike just like other proffesional athletes

I play badminton, tennis, table tennis, frisbee.

So basically, I don't play the sports that I watch the most (hockey, baseball) :p

I play um...nothing

But I watch some football and love watching watersports

Soccer. That's the only sport I watch and talk about too.

Rugby, wrestling, weight training, and gonna learn some ju-jitsu or judo for the hell of it


i can play football (both kinds) and thats it

i can play football (both kinds) Hmm, 'both' kinds? There are at least six kinds that are sometimes discussed around here so you might need to be a bit more specific.

Marcus had his first trike ride yesterday, and he didnt' fuss AT ALL about wearing his helmet! :roll:

Played golf yesterday, then jogged a little over 3 miles, then biked about 5 miles (mostly uphill). Slept well.

Sounds like some sort of business class triathlon, dmc.

Nope, didn't fit in the squash.

Hmm, 'both' kinds? There are at least six kinds that are sometimes discussed around here so you might need to be a bit more specific. sorry for my ignorance, but i thought only soccer and american football was called football

No, these Boards are so multicultural that we have people who talk about:

1) Association Football (Soccer)
2) Rugby Union Football
3) Rugby League Football
4) Australian Rules Football
5) Gaelic Football
6) American Football (Gridiron)

hmm they call rugby football? canadians just call it rugby

If you said "footie" in New Zealand, we would assume you were referring to rugby union.

Netball, hockey, tennis, badminton, athletics and a tiny amount of football. Athletics primarily though.

I golf 2-3 times a week. I walk and carry my bag.

I played football in my younger years, made it to a youth selection of the local pro club, but i wasn't very serious in those years, so i kinda flushed my chances down the toilet. I had a very lively sexlife though, so i guess that makes up for the loss. :D

All in all i played football for 12 years, i quit as an active player at the age of 21, because i couldn't combine it anymore with visiting my favourite club. I had to play a lot at the same time they kicked off at the stadium, and i hated missing a match of my hometown club.

I also did some kickboxing for about a year. Nothing fancy, mostly training and a bit of sparring, i never played any official matches.

Nowadays i do a lot of lifting, mostly cans and bottles. I can keep that up for an amazing long period of time without falling from my seat. :shake:

Soccer and Basketball

I run cross country, but I played soccer for a while when I was in middle school and elementary school.

Competitively I play:
-Basketball (open A, school team)
-Conoeing (school, captain and under 18 state champion (most points scored in under 18 races in the season - and I got a nice heavy cup for it)).
I'm also a swimming instructor (as of the end of last year) and I played table tennis for a club a while back.

I used to play soccer competitively and AFL with a few of my friends but now I have laid back and have been sticking to golf (I have NOT become really lazy and hire carts out for every game, I still walk all of the 9 hole rounds and most of the 18 hole rounds)
I used to like going for long swims when I'm out in the boat but I have stopped that with the reported increase in bull shark numbers in the bay.
And paintball. Gotta love paintball

I play both Association and American football as well as basketball, volleyball, ultimate frisbee and racketball. For exercise I do martial arts and running. Running = :( but it has to be done.

Ultimate frisbee? You've got to be having a laugh with that one surely.

"Ultimate Frisbee" is as kickass a name for a sport as "Snakes on a Plane" is for a movie.

Ultimate frisbee? You've got to be having a laugh with that one surely.I wouldn't mock it. The only sport that runs more (besides the obvious Cross-country) is football (soccer). Frisbee is constant running untill someone scores, in which you get to walk back to your goal and then run again. It takes a lot of talent to through a frisbee accurately long distances with speed, especially in high wind.

I play it, and I'm proud of it.

I know it sounds like that BA. The game is not some extreme sport where people are doing super acts or putting their health in peril but then again I didn't name it. :)

The game is a real blast to play though and a good work out if you have a fairly large field and not too many people. Like Saber says, the game rocks.

I can't believe I haven't answered this one yet. In any case I play tennis and badminton and do some running. The military has naturally seen quite a significant rise in fitness for me and I'll try to do my best keeping it up.