sam vimes
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The definition of the word "sport" started to change before anybody alive was born. You'd need to be seventy plus to have lived with folks that might have routinely applied "sports" to shooting, fishing and hunting. No modern definition of the word "sport" is likely to include angling. However, there are still throwbacks. Horse racing is still called "The Sport Of Kings". There's still a shooting magazine called "The Sporting Gun" and, when antis wish to cast aspersions, they still lump angling into the pejorative "Bloodsports" grouping.
Angling was definitely a sport under the old original definitions. It's only the change in the definition that has largely left angling (and shooting/hunting) behind.
Angling was definitely a sport under the old original definitions. It's only the change in the definition that has largely left angling (and shooting/hunting) behind.