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Originally Posted by Rubato
I'll take your word for it, either way when people typically ask you if you do sports they tend to mean anything pertaining to physical fitness, responding to the question with Chess, hunting, eating hot dogs or playing Starcraft will be met with a GTFO, regardless of the words origin to avoid confusion I'd typically put such things under "games". Words have known to change meaning throughout the evolution of language, sometimes it's best to just go along with it.
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I think if someone asked you to name a sport and you said Snooker or Darts, you'd be met with a perfectly accepting response. Even Chess if I'm honest, although that might depend on the person asking. Its certainly respected as a sport by a large number of people and organisations.