Should pro gamers be considered as athletes?

[BaldrSkies]

Akiran said:

BaldrSkies said:
Suppose you play a video game of chess. Are you an athlete because you're playing a video game, or not because it's chess, albeit in electronic form?

Suppose you're playing a Wii game with motion controls. Does the physical activity make you an athlete?

Suppose you're playing a sports video game like baseball, does that make you a double athlete for playing both the electronic version of a sport and a video game at once?

Suppose you're playing the Wii version of a baseball video game using motion controls. Where do we draw the magical line that says what game is athletic and what isn't?

At what point does this whole business of titles break down into arbitrary nonsense that someone just makes up?

"Sportsmen" Would be a better term to use

Sportsperson. Gotta appease the feminists.