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There you go again with what feels to be an absurd comparison.
Anybody could write, "children wear costumes on Halloween, does that make trick or treating an art?"
No, it just makes it fun
ETA: My references to skating as a "pageant" have more to do with how the "sport" has been run over the years and is not meant to diminish the tremendous athletic skills displayed by the skaters.
I still see very little in common between Usain Bolt sprinting down a track and figure skating which is a sport that includes performance and artistic components by definition. :yes:
It might be absurd, but you're not saying WHY it's absurd.
Essentially, the point of this thread is to pin down the nebulous definition of the word art and decide if figure skating fits. I don't expect agreement - the goal is lively debate that (hopefully) gives us (and by us, I mean mainly me) something to chew on.
Can you explain to me what the "Artistic components" of figure skating are?