(lol Real Life) Is dancing a sport?

lol.. I read this description and wondered if I read correctly: For those who have a real life.Well, I wondered if dancing is classified as a sport. There are competitions, it's a form of exercise and it is a bodily movement. What are the requirements for people to classify something a sport? (I'm just curious)I like dancing but I am nowhere better than the dead people who can actually... do nothing.

of course its a sport
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in fact, its a good sport since it works out many parts of your body

ah, yay!! I'm doing sports even without contact with round objects that have the probability to hit the head. *I meant basketball and volleyball...I have this urge to pop them. I hate these because for some reason their target is my head. I just have a pretty hard skull for surviving each heavy hit... I wish there are alot of dancing contests. I usually see those competitions with hiphop and ballroom dances and I'm good at neither. I just do normal dance. Like air guitar moves, bouncy steps, etc... and there's possibly no contests on that because it's not normal. No actually, it doesn't look like dancing.

lol, i believe there is air guitar contests. but thats not dancing :P
http://www.usairguitar.com/

no it's not, being a form of exercise does not make it a sport. it's not art either.

wikipediaA sport is an organized, competitive, entertaining, and skillful physical activity requiring commitment, strategy, and fair play, in which a winner can be defined by objective means. It is governed by a set of rules or customs. In sports the key factors are the physical capabilities and skills of the competitor when determining the outcome (winning or losing).

i believe dance can fall in the sports category
-cheerleading is a form of dance, and its a sport
-pole dancing may be in the olympics on the near future

nex26 · #5no it's not, being a form of exercise does not make it a sport. it's not art either.

dancing can be competitive though.

Anyone heard of Capeoria?
It integrates dancing into martial arts.

Loonylion · #7dancing can be competitive though.

so can tiddlywinks.

Dancing is an art. It being a sport though, I guess it has to be in the light of competition, as Loony has stated.

Replying to #10

there are many competitive dance styles. there are championships, contests and all that

There really is no defined medium of art as we would think of it.It's up to someone to see it as such, even a seagull flying across a dim horizon could be considered art to some.

Dance is a form of art as is ballet.

Replying to #13

It's a freaking Ass. AN ASS.
Also, Even if dancing is not a sport, it's still healthy as it excersises many of your body muscles. I personally jump around in my underwear to some Jeff Beck.

I think it is.
It's in fact a very useful sport (more useful than most)
It's easy to compare certain types of dancing to tennis, soccer, etc. (no, not baseball though :P)