playing video games is not a sport. There is nothing athletic about it.
Seems to fit this definition.
except the physical exertion part. If video games are a sport, chess should be a sport, pool should be a sport. Poker should be a sport.
Chess is a sport in the eyes of many people. Regardless, video games, at least the ones that have a serious competitive community, are much more physical than chess.
For the record, I’m not being fully serious, just playing devil’s advocate.