# Dopers of Sport **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 7, 2012, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-of-sport/643263 "2012-12-07T03:07:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-of-sport/643263/21 "2012-12-07T18:41:26Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > What is “ultimate”? Ultimate fighting? Ultimate frisbee? Ultimate checkers? 🙂 Ultimate frisbee. Since “Frisbee” is still a protected trademark, “ultimate” has become the generic term for the sport. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-of-sport/643263/22 "2012-12-07T18:50:39Z")
I voted too soon - I didn’t wait for the basketball option and forgot I played football in elementary school. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-of-sport/643263/23 "2012-12-07T19:20:27Z")
Yeah, I forgot that I played basketball for 2 seasons in elementary school (was terrible) and soccer as a kid (not quite as terrible). But I remembered to list baseball, flag football, bowling, roller hockey (which I put under roller sports rather than ice hockey- probably a mistake), and broomball. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-of-sport/643263/24 "2012-12-07T19:53:27Z")
I voted for Baseball/Softball, Track (actually shot put/discus),Football, Soccer, Tennis, Golf, Basketball, Volleyball, and Other. The other being paintball. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-of-sport/643263/25 "2012-12-07T20:39:04Z")
Softball until high school. Cricket until 16 and rugby until 25 for me. Now its casual golf for me. ---
**Author:** ![Krav\_Manga](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krav_manga/32/3153_2.png) [@Krav\_Manga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krav_Manga)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-of-sport/643263/26 "2012-12-10T04:52:18Z")
At primary school, principally soccer and cricket. At high school, rugby, rowing, swimming and athletics. Following high school, rugby and cricket. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-of-sport/643263/27 "2012-12-10T04:59:38Z")
Baseball, in 3rd grade. I sucked at it. I did much better when I grew up, joined the SCA, and they let me hit people with the stick. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-of-sport/643263/28 "2012-12-10T06:08:57Z")
Volleyball and softball in middle school (grades 7-9). Softball on a couple of corporate teams. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-of-sport/643263/29 "2012-12-10T08:33:17Z")
I dithered over golf–I play regularly in season, but it’s casual, with friends. Never competed. In the end, I did not choose it. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-of-sport/643263/30 "2012-12-10T08:49:19Z")
I’m placing Ultimate Frisbee in the “Weird College Intramural” category, even though it wasn’t a college team. Actually quite surprising the number of things I had to stop and say “Well, yeah, we had a team and competed, so I suppose I have to count. . .” ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-of-sport/643263/31 "2012-12-10T10:55:07Z")
Soccer/Football and Rugby. In my mid-to-late-teens I played Rugby for the District of Rugby Schools (which didn’t actually include the Rugby School that invented the sport, but is kind of like “playing rugby for Rugby”). Shit, I forgot to add cricket. I was on the school team and also played for my town and U18 (or something) level. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-of-sport/643263/32 "2012-12-10T11:45:35Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Sorry about the lack of non-American sports like cricket and curling. I’m an American, and I curl. I’ve been sucking at it this season, but I do play. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-of-sport/643263/33 "2012-12-10T12:22:02Z")
All the sports that a nice middle-class, privately schooled british girl should participate in: hockey (field), tennis and swimming (and rounders, which I lumped under softball/baseball). I also did cyclo-cross, hardest bloomin sport I have EVER done. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-of-sport/643263.md?page=1)