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This chart will help you answer 'Is it a sport?'

Finally we have the answer.

Chart via Imgur

Football, basketball, baseball, hockey. We know these are sports, there's no doubting it -- but what about some more fringe activities we don't talk about all the time? Reddit took a poll of people to find out their opinions on whether certain things were sports, now there's a graph that helps us see what are sports, and which are pretenders.

There are some interesting results by opening this up to a public poll.

  • 67 percent of respondents say Formula 1 racing is a sport, but that drops to 59 percent for NASCAR.
  • Ultimate Frisbee is considered more of a sport than six sports that are eligible at the Olympic or Winter Olympic games.
  • 75 percent of people say Jai Alai is a sport, which means 25 percent of people don't know what Jai Alai is. Definitely a sport.
  • More people think bowling is a sport than rock climbing.
  • Sorry poker.