Geocaching--a Sport?

[Phil The ScubaDiver]

Alot of people have been critizizing me and saying Geocaching isn't a sport, it's a hobby. What do you think it is. And why?

[+Gorak]

If bowling and golf can be sports, then geocaching is definately a sport.

[+Snoogans]

Sport/Obsession

 

Sn gans

[+CYBret]

This has already been settled. It's a RASH.

 

Bret

[+Polgara]

I think it depends on what it takes to sign the log.

[Clown Knife]

Geocaching is whatever it is for whomever, whenever, and however. If sitting in a duck blind all day long waiting for a duck to land or fly by is a sport? Then.......I rest my case! GEOCACHING IS DEFINITELY A SPORT! Just as ORIENTEERING is a sport.

[+Team Cacheopeia]

The way I do it (head out every couple weeks, hit a few caches at a time here and there) it's a hobby. There's no real competition and no major physical exertion (at least for most of them).

 

There are the big-leaguers, though, who hit billions a day, running uphill to the tops of mountains and such... yep, I'd say that's a sport.

 

Jaime

[+Navdog]

Most activities labeled a sport entail some type of competition. Therefore, I prefer to call geoacaching a sport. The competition is between me and that box somewhere out there in the woods.

[+Snoogans]

Geocaching is whatever it is for whomever, whenever, and however. If sitting in a duck blind all day long waiting for a duck to land or fly by is a sport? Then.......I rest my case! GEOCACHING IS DEFINITELY A SPORT! Just as ORIENTEERING is a sport.

I agree that it's a sport. You don't have to be an athlete to play golf and it's a sport.

 

My opinion differs when you compare geocaching and orienteering. Orienteering takes a bit more effort and skill than geocaching or golf.

 

I had the fortune to see part of an orienteering competition during a geocaching event. (Unrelated, we were just in the same park.) The people I saw were mostly athletic.

 

I plan to try my hand at orienteering as soon as I get this "Jared of Geocaching" thing that I'm working on ironed out.

 

Sn gans

[Phil The ScubaDiver]

I like that reply navdog...its funny

[+El Diablo]

I really think it is the way you as an individual views it. Some people view it as a sport because they like to compete with others to see who can find the most. Others view it as a hobby because they really don't care how many finds others have, they just want the enjoyment of hunting them.

 

So in reality it's a sport/hobby. Up to you.

 

El Diablo

 

p.s To me it's a hobby.

[+briansnat]

Main Entry: sport

Function: noun

Date: 15th century

1 a : a source of diversion : RECREATION (1) : physical activity engaged in for pleasure.

 

Sounds like a sport to me.

[dsandbro]

I like George Carlin's definition of a sport:

 

1) It has to be played with a ball,

 

2) There is a chance of serious injury,

 

3) You can bet on the outcome, and

 

4) spectators can drink beer.

 

Geocaching only meets two of the four.

[+JMBella]

I like George Carlin's definition of a sport:

 

1) It has to be played with a ball,

 

2) There is a chance of serious injury,

 

3) You can bet on the outcome, and

 

4) spectators can drink beer.

 

Geocaching only meets two of the four.

 

I dissagree.

1) Took: Tennis BALL Left: Dirty Golf BALL

 

3) I bet you $50 you can't find 200 caches in 2 weeks.

[ju66l3r]

I like George Carlin's definition of a sport:

 

1) It has to be played with a ball,

 

2) There is a chance of serious injury,

 

3) You can bet on the outcome, and

 

4) spectators can drink beer.

 

Geocaching only meets two of the four.

 

I dissagree.

1) Took: Tennis BALL Left: Dirty Golf BALL

 

3) I bet you $50 you can't find 200 caches in 2 weeks.

Watch what you bet...there's a guy in TN who got over 300 in one 24 hour period!

[+Divine]

The way the meaning of Finnish translations of sport and hobby sound in my ear makes me definitely want to define geocaching as hobby.

 

So, it's a hobby for me.