You know the more I thought about the "definition" argument, the more I realized it didn't make any sense. Given that we say things like "old sport" and "Give it a sporting chance", the word doesn't seem to really come from actions as we'd define it today.
So then I asked my old friend entomology about it and he said:
[Middle English sporte, short for disporte, from Old French desport, pleasure, from desporter, to divert; see disport.]
Which loosely translated means eSports are the very definition of sport.
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