Dog sports are activities that involve dogs.
There is much discussion about what exactly defines a sport[note] for dogs. Some issues:
- Must a sport be entertaining to watch? Agility, Disc dog, and Dock Jumping are very entertaining to spectators, and often televised.
- If a human companion is not actively involved, is it actually a sport? Take greyhound racing, for example, or hunting from, say, a duck blind, from which the dog retrieves the game.
- Is any activity a sport if a casual observer does not understand the nature of the competition? For example, in a conformation show the handler and dog move around a ring for a judge to evaluate the dog's appearance and structure; the skill and knowledge required are not obvious to those uninterested in the sport.
This list is intended only to represent anything that anyone is likely to refer to as a dog sport, not to argue its validity as sport.
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- Agility
- Bikejoring
- Cani cross
- Carting
- Competition obedience
- Conformation showing
- Catchball (A variation on Flyball)
- Disc dog
- Dog fighting
- Dock Jumping
- Dog hiking, Pack Hiking
- Dog scootering
- Earthdog trials
- Field trials
- Flyball
- French Ring Sport
- Greyhound racing
- Hare coursing
- Herding or Stock Dog
- Hunting
- Hound Trailing
- Junior Showmanship
- Lure coursing
- Mushing, Dog mushing
- Musical canine freestyle; Canine Dressage; Heelwork to Music
- Obedience training
- Protection sports (including Schutzhund and French Ring Sport)
- Rally obedience
- Retrieving trials
- Scent hurdling
- Scootering
- Schutzhund
- Sheepdog trials (or Herding)
- Sighthound racing (including Greyhound racing, coursing, and lure coursing)
- Skijoring
- Sled dog racing
- Tracking trials (see also Tracking (dog))
- Water rescue
- Weight pulling
- Weiner Racing (i.e. racing Dachshunds)
Notes
note: ^ The oldest definition of sport (1300) is of anything humans find amusing or entertaining.[1] Other meanings include gambling and events staged for the purpose of gambling; hunting; and games and diversions, including ones that require exercise.[2] Roget's defines the noun sport as an "Activity engaged in for relaxation and amusement" with synonyms including diversion and recreation.[3] An example of a more sharply defined meaning is "an athletic activity where one competitor or a team of competitors plays against another competitor or group of competitors [with] a conclusive method of scoring...not determined by a judge."[4]
References
- ^ Douglas Harper. "sport (n.)". Online Etymological Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
- ^ Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged. The Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff. Springfield, MA U.S.A.: G&C Merriam Company. pp. 2206, sport.
- ^ Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/sport.
- ^ Andrew Goodman (July 27, 2007). "That's absurd, golf isn't a sport". New Jersey Herald (newspaper). http://www.njherald.com/289450476013270.php. Retrieved 2008-05-16.
See also
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