I love bodybuild and it it definately hard, and takes genetics. But is bodybuild really a sport? Or is it top pagaent for guys like Miss Universe is for women? are bodybuild fellas really athletes?
Definitely hard to define bodybuilders as athletes. Dictionary defines an athlete as: "a person trained or gifted in exercises or contests involving physical agility, stamina, or strength; a participant in a sport, exercise, or game requiring physical skill."
Could be considered a sport if extended to broadest definition, esp. #3 below (a "diversion, recreation, pleasant pastime"). Still, it does take some physical prowess to pose for an audience and judges when one is depleted, and dehydrated. (Ask Paul Dillett who froze up when posing at the 1994 Arnold.)
Sport1. an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
2. a particular form of this, especially in the out of doors.
3. diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime.
4. jest; fun; mirth; pleasantry: What he said in sport was taken seriously.
5. mockery; ridicule; derision: They made sport of him.
