I used to have a similar opinion about what things should or shouldn't count as sports. I took a course in college about sports and I learned that there are actually legal ramifications to whether we call things a sport or not. For instance, there are people who might not want to call cheerleading a sport, but if it is not, then schools are not required to provide adequate protection (like pads for falling) for them. I think we can agree that there is definitively a possibility of getting hurt in cheerleading and so equipment like that should be available.

Not a physical sport. Sporting/sportsmanship centers around the competitive nature of the event, not how physical it is.

I grew up playing all the "real" sports. I get the pushback, but at the end of the day if there is an opponent, even if that opponent is yourself, it's a sporting event.

Everything can be a sport.

Darts is at least physical, chess is not a sport. It's a game.

I’m with OP on this one.

In my view, sports are games where pure physicality (speed/power/endurance) confers a major advantage. All physical games reward coordination and precision, but I would only call the subset of those that also reward physicality sports.

What about pool/snooker/billiards?

Same with swimming and soccer