Geocaching: A game, a hobby or a sport

[+spikerek]

Whenever I try to explain geocaching to someone who has never heard of it, I don't know if I should describe it as a hobby, a sport or a game. What do you consider it?

[+The Jester]

An obsession!

[+Hawkbit]

All 3 would be correct at any given point....

 

Game - when you are competing with other people to be the FTF or just racking up the numbers.

 

Sport - when you add in the physical activity involved - especially those 5 mile hikes.

 

Hobby - when you are doing it during your downtime in an otherwise busy life.

 

A rose by any other name.... and all that

[+Super_Nate]

Just tell them it is all three! More impressive that way!

[+Retcon]

I call it a treasure hunt.

[+wiseye]

I've heard it called a RASH, here in the forums......Recreational Activity, Sport, Hobby!

[+Snoogans]

I've heard it called a RASH, here in the forums......Recreational Activity, Sport, Hobby!

 

 

Some call it GUILT...... Grown-Up Idiots Lookin' for Tupperware (The Snoogstress prefers that one. I fear that if we ever have children they'll be born half muggle.)

[X-isle]

I've hunted a few and have yet to hide one, and I'm all strung out on this ...hobby. It really is addicting.

[+Boot Group]

I just call it hiking.

[woolsox]

I call it an outdoor activity.

[+nikcap]

I call it a hobby.

I treat it the same as hiking, bird watching, model railroading and fishing.

[+Sequoia_2]

STRESS RELIEF!!!!

[+briansnat]

From Merriam Webster

 

Main Entry: Sport

Function: noun

1 a : a source of diversion : RECREATION c (1) : physical activity engaged in for pleasure

 

From Dictionary.com

Sport /spɔrt, spoʊrt/

1. 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, esp. in the out of doors.

3. diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime.

 

From Encarta:

 

Sport

noun (plural sports)

Definition:

 

1. competitive physical activity: an individual or group competitive activity involving physical exertion or skill, governed by rules, and sometimes engaged in professionally ( often used in the plural )

2. pastime: an active pastime participated in for pleasure or exercise

 

 

Sounds like a sport to me.

Edited February 28, 2007 by briansnat

[+flask]

soccer is a sport, yet it is very definately a game.

 

bicycle riding is a sport, yet a minority of riders ride as a sport.

 

call geocaching whatever you like; the description you use will probably be closest to the way you think about it, and therefore will be the best to communicate your ideas on the topic.

[+BigWhiteTruck]

I have always found that calling it a game is advantageous when describing just "what the hell are you doing?" to the police at o-dark-thirty.