Do you think darts are a sport?

VNagy333 · Oct 29, 2025

I look forward to your opinions.

Marcwantstowin · Oct 29, 2025

Darts is a sport, as much as chess is a sport. Both involve lots of training, although vastly different. I used to play darts for a team in my local area and I was surprised how seriously players took it, and that was in a Pub league.

Goggelheimer · Oct 29, 2025

I t may be. It needs a lot of training and I say a lot of talent and physical things.

But do these Darts players look like sportsmen/women?

Michael van Gerwen
Stephen Bunting
Luke Littler
Rob Cross

and many more.

They look more like heavyweight champions in wrestling or some Asian sports with fancy hairstylings.

nabmom · Oct 29, 2025

A sport doesn’t, by definition, mean that the player is physically fit. For example, I would say that sumo wrestling is a sport and those guys aren’t exactly buff!

I think darts requires skill and strategy, so to me that makes it a sport.

bazza155 · Oct 30, 2025

Just because it does not involve running does not make it not a sport. you can say the same about snooker, pool, shooting, fencing, bowling, esports etc.

YLAN · Oct 30, 2025

Its a sport of accuracy much like archery, etc. I just wonder why one would think otherwise.

moraeskvmi · Oct 30, 2025

If breakdancing has become an Olympic sport, why can't darts be?

ArmiSoo7 · Oct 30, 2025

It is sport, and a hard one. I am shocked how straight you can throw that litle dart.😃

havingfun · Oct 30, 2025

Darts have to be a sport. It's the only way I can tell the wife I am out late exercising with the friends without it being a lie.

Lux12 · Oct 30, 2025

Yes i THINK. It combines precision, mental focus, and competitive structure, which are key elements of sport.

monkeytilter · Oct 30, 2025

Yes contested by top flight* athletes

*See what I did there?

nasty bent gorilla · Nov 1, 2025

The best darts players evince Heart,, stamina, bounebackability, composure and skill: All important traits of sucessful sports people.

Vallet · Nov 6, 2025

I was watching a darts competition for the world title. Athletes may not be pumped-up athletes, but their strength is in precision. It's very exciting when the leader is constantly changing.

A_rn_ol_D · Nov 6, 2025

Hell yeah!!

Igor Popadyk · Nov 6, 2025

My opinion is that no, sports in a beer bar?

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