[monster]

"Recreation", "amusement" and "entertainment" feature highly in the Oxford Dictionary definition of sport ...and sex is the first example of sport, so I guess we're all going with our own definitions here....

For me, a sport needs to involve a reasonable amount of physical exertion. So darts wouldn't count. But it's widely televised and gambled on in the UK. (Let's face it though, you can bet on anything and there are some people who will. Bowling, borderline. )

I feel like there should be an element of competition.

Sports in my mind are related to physical fitness, so I sort of want to say if you can do it well without being physically fit, then it's not a sport. I wouldn't call gymnastics or shooting (or bowling) a sport.

And I sort of agree with the "definable goals" approach. But I disagree that they're not there in freestyle figure skating. You just need more referees. Whether they should be there is a different matter -figure skating was more fun when the judging was more subjective.