Is figure skating a sport? In response to emotional involvement, please watch any football/basketball/baseball/soccer game when the ref doles out a bad call. There is definately emotion involved!

Hi Composso.
I am sorry if your getting really sick of my posts on this forum because I know I am but I thought I might just give my opinion on your question.
I think figure skating is an art while football, basketball, baseball and soccer games are sports.
Although there is obvious emotion involved, emotion alone does not define art. My opinion is that in art, true emotion is created from something-it is like a product of a reaction. In figure skating, dancesport, ballet, painting, sculpting, acting, etc we are able to formulate emotions from actions. In dance by creating even very elementary movements the product is an emotion (this would be a very weak emotion. To make it powerful one would need to combine other things into the recipe). I think that the same thing occurs in figure skating.

In sports such as swimming, soccer, basketball, etc, when emotion occurs it is not intentionally created from something, it occurs just like in everyday life. I believe athletes do not 'create things' while artists do. For instance, I have a girlfriend and she always nags me to put the toilet seat down. It's like a constant nagging and it makes me express frustration and anger. Does this mean that keeping my girlfriend happy is an artform?.....................................................ill tell you sometimes i feel like it is

Yea, anything is possible since it is very active but when I think of sports it is more conditioning and has this whole different athletic perspective, but dance is such an art. Gymnastics that perform the floor exercises, people can debate that is reality dance but to but ballroom dancing, and etc. The Olympic committee has to rethink a way of how to judge that and accept that into the events.

To me it is my sport that i play and i been in it until i was two and i love it