What is the most Athletic sport?

I would say Basketball.

Basketball for me.

Fishing.

Magic the Gathering

Ughh Football daaah!

I would too.

Its basketball.

Basketball. Speed, strength, agility, jumping ability, stamina, core muscles, the list goes on for all the things in order to be a top athlete in basketball.

Chess.

Swimming. It works your entire body.

Gymnastics, wrestling (not wwe), and boxing.

Trolling

Swimming, Gymnastics, and Cross Country.

Women's MMA

Foorball.

Football

Ice Hockey most likely.

Basketball

Procrastination or

This.

Though I do love some procrastination...yeah, you need to be tough as nails to play hockey, in addition to being strong, having keen coordination, be fast, agile, have high endurance, incredible stamina, fast reflexes, quick thinking etc. Its a hard sport to play let alone be good at in any way.

Basketball.

No. Hockey isn't very athletic.

Sex

as a fotball player I'd like to agree...but as long as boxing, wrestling, and mma exist I'd be inclined to disagree.

Gymnastics, MMA, and Swimming. You're wrong if you think otherwise.

Parkour

Swimming. I love it when my friends who go to gym call it a sport for kids and old men.

Have you ever played? Your legs are like wet noodles after

As far as high school/college sports go the answer is easily wrestling....and it's not even close. You try running 3-4 miles outside, running stairs, doing 10 min suicides, a bunch of gymnastics sh!t, push-ups, sit-ups, anaerobic cardio, stretching and in a blazing hot room for pre-practice. You try starving yourself and sleeping in 4 layers because you couldn't quite make the weight you needed. You try going hours on a treadmill/bike just to lose that extra pound before weigh in. Wrestling is f*cking hard. It's hell. Glorious, glorious hell.

MMA. Leaning multiple forms of combat at once is ridiculously taxing.

basketball = strength, speed, precision, accuracy, coordination, reflexes, reactions, leaping, teamwork, stamina

otherwise any martial arts would do

Team sports: Rugby.

• Most positions run further or as far as football players, definitely further than basketball players.
• Less stops and breaks than American football ergo more endurance required. Most breaks requires scrums - even more physical demand.
• The players carry more physical weight and need to be stockier than most sports.
• Meets more resistance and requires more physical encounter than football, basketball and Ice Hockey. Perhaps on par with American Football.. however one could argue that it has more.
• Has the same if not more pushing & pulling as Wrestling at longer periods.
• Has far more impact than most Martial art fights at longer periods.

Rugby just demands more than any of the sports already listed here.

• Football you need to be fast and have good stamina, but you have carry no weight
• American football you arguably need to be strong and fast, but with all the stops you get you don't need stamina
• Basketball you need to be fast and have good fast twich muscles, but again you don't run as far and you don't carry as much weight and you don't get the resistance that American football players get.

But with rugby you need to be all of those combined. You need to be everything, fast, strong, good stamina.

Individual Sports.

Iron man Triathlon. Hands down.

3.8 km swim. then a 180km bike then a marathon 42km run.

@buttersdaman000:

You try running 3-4 miles outside

3-4 miles is nothing? My girl flatmate runs further than that everyday. She's not even an athlete. I literally just ran 10kms (6 miles ish?) just before and I had to turn back cause I forgot I had something on.

doing 10 min suicides

Not that hard?

You try starving yourself. You try going hours on a treadmill/bike just to lose that extra pound before weigh in.

You have literally described every average girl in my gym.

Dumb question, athletics

Probably wrestling or boxing.

Martial arts

Did you see pre-practice in italics? That type of stuff is warm-up, all done in quick succession.....and notice that type is italics as well since there was definitely more to it....

Yeah, no I haven't lol.....I work in a gym. I have never seen girls decked out in 3-4 layers with a trashbag covering her body furiously going at it on cardio equipment....

Edit:

Ah, I see you think Rugby is the most athletic sport.....nah....they're certainly trained to be stronger, but I used to play Rugby and the conditioning, weight management, and actual sport were nowhere near as exhausting as wrestling (6 years for me).

Edit: The actual sport was pretty damn hard as well tbh....i'll give it a win over wrestling on average since wrestling is a test of 1v1 skill, and if you're opponent isn't as good as you the match can be one-sided and kind of easy.

@mandarinestro: body weight and relative training exercises don't cover all aspects of being athletic their cardio is decent but not the level of runners, sprinters are also one of most powerful and long distance are probably the fittest, theres a reason its called athletics becacuse in all other sports and gymnastics skill and technique have a big point to play however athletics does require a,ot of technique but it is more about your physical aspects

Basketball, Football, Hockey and Swimming are the 4 Heavenly Kinigs of Athletic Sports.

Each one has a distinct necessity.

@buttersdaman000: I wrestled in high-school and was really good but it's not the most athletic sport. A guy like Ben Askren isn't the most athletic but was great. It's more about more about hardwork, skill, and cardio.

Basketball.. is the wrong answer.

It's "Water Polo". I s*** you not. Playing a game of water polo is like playing six games of basketball. I played only once in college. You are swimming in the deep end of the pool the entire game while racing to the ball and trying to evade opponents. At least in basketball you get to stand still at moments and walk leisurely. In water polo you're at the very least treading water THE ENTIRE TIME.

As a bonus: women's water polo has the very best uniforms of any sport ever. Google it. It's kinda NSFW.

I did football, wrestling, soccer, tennis, and volleyball in HS....and rugby for 2 years in college.....wrestling was easily the most athletic sport.....where do you live?? Believe it or not, it kind of matters...

Hockey.

@buttersdaman000: well what I mean is any guy who works hard at it, has a chance of being good at it I think. If you're not tall in basketball, you won't be as good. I wrestled in California.

@buttersdaman000:

Did you see pre-practice in italics? That type of stuff is warm-up, all done in quick succession.....and notice that type is italics as well since there was definitely more to it....

I meant that all those pre practise stuff is literally nothing. Easy. Even if it's for the warm up.

Yeah, no I haven't lol.....I work in a gym. I have never seen girls decked out in 3-4 layers with a trashbag covering her body furiously going at it on cardio equipment....

No I meant that girls would literally starve themselves, drink nothing just to lose that 1 extra kg. The whole point of that rebuttal was that nothing you mentioned really struck as anything special. Every sport demands warm ups like that. It's really nothing special.

Ah, I see you think Rugby is the most athletic sport.....nah....they're certainly trained to be stronger, but I used to play Rugby and the conditioning, weight management, and actual sport were nowhere near as exhausting as wrestling (6 years for me).

Edit: The actual sport was pretty damn hard as well tbh....i'll give it a win over wrestling on average since wrestling is a test of 1v1 skill, and if you're opponent isn't as good as you the match can be one-sided and kind of easy.

No the whole point is that even if the conditioning demands are still arguably higher in wrestling, Rugby is still on par with the physical demands of every other sport. And no other sport can say that.

You need to run as far as football players, you encounter as many hits and tackles and carry as much weight as an American football player, you have less stops and you need to have better endurance too, etc. So you can argue and say that wrestling has more condition then I can say, yeah but they don't demand as much cardio during their match. Rugby players also spend nearly as much time entangled with an opponent as wrestlers do.

Rugby is on a different league here in NZ.

I used to compete with sprints so i'm completely used to running. I wanted to go for a run with a friend of mine who just represents the city for rugby so he's not even that good. We ran up a good 5ks then sprinted up a steep 500m hill. I was surprised because kept up with me and i'm built just to run. But he carries twice as much weight as me.

@dbvse7:

Yes but Rugby requires all the distinct necessities those 4 needs to do.

League of Legends

Are you people serious? Athletics is the most athletic sport

Pfft. Get out of here with that sh!t.