Sport conversation questions

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Sport

Do you like to exercise?
How often do you exercise? What do you do?
Do you think fishing is a sport? What about chess or darts?
Do you prefer playing or watching sports?
Do you prefer watching sports at the stadium, at home on TV, or in a bar on a giant screen?
If your boss suggested that your group at work took up a team sport in order to help you work better as a team at work how you react?
How many hours of sport a week should children do at school?
Do you think sports stars should be paid such high salaries? What are the arguments for and against?
Would you like to be a professional sportsman or woman? What would be the advantages or disadvantages?
An "extreme sport" is a sport which is dangerous (or at least appears dangerous) to the person practising it. What is your opinion of these?
A "blood sport" is a sport in which an animal is killed or injured. What is your opinion of these. Using the broadest possible definition they include:
- Fishing. (Perhaps to eat them, perhaps not.)
- Shooting birds. (Presumably to eat them.)
- Hunting large animals like deer. (Presumably to eat them.)
- Fox hunting. (For pleasure?)
- Bullfighting. (For pleasure.)
- Dogfighting. (To bet?)
- Cock-fighting. (to bet?)

A football player has a career of, perhaps, 15 years. With such a short working life, do they deserve high salaries?
What are the disadvantages of playing soccer for a living?
Typically the same clubs win every time. Is this fair? How could things be changed?
Which country has the most enjoyable soccer?
Should the offside rule be removed?
Do you ever watch women's football? Why, why not?