By definition of what a sport is, marching band fits it.

Ppl don’t realize how hard it is to play an instrument on its own And than you start marching and playing at the same time

"walking the field"☠️ by that logic football is running around the field, with a ball

A wise man once said "Marching band is like a sport... Only a lot harder."

As someone who's friend with someone who has to march with a giant ass tuba. Keep up with fast tempos. Do some physical visuals like dancing to keep the crowd entertained. And breathe without missing a beat I'd say marching band is a sport

Definition of sport A physical activity of skill where individuals exert energy and compete against groups for fun and entertainment Physical activity- we don’t just march, we also do push ups, stretch, run laps, etc. Exert energy- we have to catch our breath after playing a full rep, then again we have to during the rep, cuz we blow so much air we have to breathe a lot. Skill- I’ve never seen someone pick up an instrument and march with it perfectly on their first day, I’m a freshmen and I could still use some practice on my marching technique. Compete- We have an international sport called DCI (Drum Corps International) where bands from around the country compete against each other, and trust me, in DCI, they are hard on ya, really hard.

People in marching band are considered athletes and we do a lot of stuff

Yes, it is. A lot of people do not realize how much effort and practice it takes to be good at marching band. There’s a ton of factors that go into it, and by definition, marching band fits into a sport.

As I am in high school marching band and play one of the heaviest instruments (euphonium) I can confirm that marching band is a sport

I’m a band nerd and I’m proud of it.

Bro just make the people who say that try marching band, guaranteed they’ll go home and cry

Fr.. It sucks when people don't know how difficult it is In marching band, I've played basketball n I believe marching band is more difficult. 😭

I’ve had someone ask me how marching band is a sport and they didn’t agree with me so I told them that we win way more awards then they do

If matching band was any easier they would call it football

It is a sport!!

Marching Band classifies as a sport.

It is a sport!!! So if you don't think it is but it is

It absolutely is a sport

Marching band is 100% a sport and if you say it’s not then you have clearly never marched around a giant football field with the weight of a bass drum all on your back. It’s definitely a sport and you can fight me on that.

I'm in a (6A State) HS band in Texas, and I can indeed confirm marching is a sport. Also saying that we "walk around the field" is genuinely funny, lol. It's a sport, but not a game.

Marching band takes strength, time, patience, grit, and everything any other "sport" takes plus more. In Texas, marching in 104 degree weather without rain, clouds, and minimal water is rough. Also not to mention being in step, time, and posture are all HUGE parts of it. And we have to use what little air we have for breathing while marching in the hot sun for our instruments... Over and over. And low brass especially, (I'm a trombone) are dripping in sweat and exhausted by the time 45 minute practice is over.

People don’t realize how much of a workout marching band is 😂

Marching is a sport learning an instrument is hard on its own but then you need to memorize music and work so hard to march perfectly and

There was a study on this stuff and actually, the heart rate of of a marching band player playing and walking around the field is the same as a well trained marathon runner in the middle of a marathon

we get the same amount of pe credits as the football players so

Marching band is a sport, as is colorguard 😁

We put the girl with severe scoliosis on tenor drums... genius

‘Behind every great marching band . . . Is a bald band director’ a wise person (Most of the time it’s true. . .)

According to Google and my knowledge of sport history, Marching band is currently a sport.

The response to people who say that we just walk around a field and play an instrument: Okay, if it’s so easy and not a sport, you go do it

Marching band Is a sport

Marching band is definitely a sport!! (My marching band friends say if someone doesn’t consider marching band as a sport. . . It’s a red flag) Try marching around the field doing choreography at the same time while memorizing your dots and memorized your music plus doing it all great at the first time (no one can do that)

As a former high school marcher, I can definitely confirm that whether or not you may think it’s a sport it is definitely one of the hardest “activities” ever created. I definitely think it’s a sport but if you dare to argue, I just want to say that I do play what people call “real sports” (aka basketball, football, soccer, etc.) and even though I have been playing sports my whole life, nothing has been more energy occupying than marching band. I personally think it’s harder than most sports. Like, as bad as it sounds, I have never seen more people pass out performing doing anything else than marching band, we are worked to the core and you have to pay attention to everything you do to take care of yourself and about playing your instrument and the actual marching itself.

I’m in marching band, I play the quads. I can tell you now it fits the definition of a sport. You walk while you play and you use a lot of energy

Marching band is a sport we compete and its more difficult than it looks Im in the Colorgaurd for Marching band and its difficult but i love it

My response is always "pfft, you try it"

Marching by logic is considered a sport. Some people don’t understand the struggles with step size, tempo changes, memorization, or just playing the instrument and marching together.

Marching band is like a boot camp, only enjoyable at some points

YES IT'S A SPORT AND SHOULD BE APPRECIATED

“Walk around the field?” 😮 Hell no we did not just walk around the field we marched heel toe and had to glide backwards. The drills were intense!

Yes they have 2 weeks of band camp from 8am to 9pm to practice in mid July

Yea, I carried a 47-pound drum on my chest with perfect posture for hours a day in high school. Band camp was from 8 AM to 6 PM with two fifteen minute breaks and 30 for lunch. in the middle of june. We watched the football players, the cheerleaders, and baseball players come and go.

Its on the list for my school sports and its physical and competitive, physically tho it is easy but so is tennis

These are fighting words!! 😂 Marching band IS A SPORT. PERIOD.

One of my friends asked me this and I told him, “go blow through a straw and run a mile, that’s how it feels.”

Walk around? Has this man seen DCI?? Lol

"We don't just walk.... We walk in style" my band director

IT IS A SPORT AND IM IN IT!

If playing games online is a sport, so is marching band

Yessss marching and playing at the same time is hard with a alto sax and I'm in middle school

To all the people that say it isn’t a sport, try walking in time to a metronome, while playing the tuba, do some choreography, in a hot and tight suit, all while doing it in 100 degree weather (at least where I live). Then tell me it isn’t a sport

It sure is a sport. We practice more than football boys

WE BUILD ARM AND CALF MUSCLES😤

Bro my marching band is! We are the one of the only bands who actually DANCE while performing. Other bands have their majorettes/charettes do all the dancing

i dare someone like this to march around a football field at 180 BPM with full uniform on in 105° weather, not missing a single note or rhythm, and hitting every single one of your sets. dont even get me started about the HORRID sock tan you get man

As high school marching band player it is in fact very hard. For us we take 2 weeks out of summer break for are butts to spend ten hours of marching and playing repeatedly every time. I can only imagine DCI groups.

If we were going by the definition of a sport, Marching Band fits

Marching Band is a sport, it’s because you have to get to your destination at the right time, and it takes a lot of work

Bro, everyone says it's not a sport when it is!

Marching band is not necessarily a sport in the traditional sense but it's sure as hell an athletic activity and is definitely worth the gym credit a lot of schools honor for completing however many seasons of it.

Bro if u hear one more person say “walking around a field” when talking about marching band I’m gonna lose my mind

Those outfits and marching wether its cold or hot makes it a sport

Fundamentals are huge when marching. And some of them are PAINFUL

Every Blue Devils member is fucking ripped

I had a parade yesterday, and I marched in it, and my arms hurt so much after marching.

It all depends on how seriously your band takes it

Yes those drums be hurting

a lot of us have dances or stunts we do while marching making it harder

Colorguard feels like a sport 100% I’m so sore after practice and we have to stretch, we have to walk/run all over a field like 100 times, and we have to throw heavy objects

It is!!!!! I’ve been debating this with non band people at my school who say it isn’t a sport. You literally march and play your instrument at the same time! Plus you’re not on the bench for the season

We have practices, competitions, we are a sport

as a bottom bass drum and a soccer player, id take soccer practice over band rehearsals ANYDAY. Marching bottom bass is so much more physically demanding than playng soccer.

I said this to my track friend and wrestling friend the got so offended that i said marching band is a sport and that it is tough

As someone who does both REAL sports and marching band. It is NOT a sport. Not even close.

He is a jock, he is a D1 athlete, he is a member of the marching band.

.. .but......the giant stuffed giraffe?? 😂

Heh heh my friend we do not walk... we March, run, prey to God we finish without dying, and blackout half way through while still moving. True story it happened to me lol

Marching is so hard especially because you get a workout every practice 😢

Playing an instrument while marching in the heat is not easy, especially all the different marching techniques and a bunch of other oddly specific things

dude when people say it isnt a sport im just like, ok, so me carrying huge 30-50 pond sousaphone while marching in formation isnt a sport

There’s been some actual biometric research about the cardiovascular needs and also the vascular needs of a Marching band member, they found that it takes the cardio of a marathoner. While it also takes the respiratoria needs of a sprinter running an 800 meter dash

I had this exact same conversation with this kid in cross country in my first period. Kid was like “all y’all do is walk and play some music” so I made a deal with him and we switched activities for a night, so I made him go to a 3 hour practice and I went to an hour of cross country and I beat like half the xc Team and he passed out on the field. Long story short he hasn’t brought up anything about marching band not being a sport.

If golf is a sport, marching band definitely is

It all depends how you define a sport, if you define a sport as just a physical activity then it is a sport

Bro marching band is def a sport my band camp this yr was a dci type show where we had 5 hour practices while it was 110 degrees f

I’m in marching band myself and marching band is a lot very hard and people think that playing an instrument is easy it takes talent

after all the pain and lack of breathing that comes after marching, it better be classified as a sport.

I mean for us a small screw up like making the slightest move at “attention” costs us 10 push ups so it’s basically the same

MARCHING BAND IS A SPORT

Also as someone who has been in marching band for…12 years (holy sh!t) It is 100% a sport

Marching band is a sport. As a upcoming freshman in a 2A school I have been in marching band for 2 years and will be my 3rd this year I march trumpet and I think that’s hard.😂 football people think football is harder it might be but us marching band kids stand outside in like 92 degrees and 100% humidity and we do that for the whole day and football at my school does it for half a day plus they probably get 2-4 water breaks every hour while in my band we have about 1 to 0 per hour put the 5 minute water breaks we need we don’t have makes us push forward and get a lot done bc it pushes us to water breaks we need so yes it is a sport (Edit) we also carry around our instruments and it’s hard trust me people think it’s easy it’s not and if you get injured like I am kinda with playing trumpet and my right wrist is now hurt it sucks and hard to play

I don’t think you realize the sheer *VOLUME* of *LUNGS* you need to make it through *ONE PART* and f a good show

BE FOR REAL. Marching band DEFINITELY is athletic, may not be considered a sport but you do TONNS of stretches and you LITERALLY run laps. around the feild.

No. It is an artistic production with an athletic component.

Ok so I played volleyball for several years in school and on a different team that played more competitively around the u.s and I have never been as out of breath after a volleyball as I have been after a marching show. It is intense and it does so much to your body

when people say this, I want to charge at them with my flag

It hurts your muscles and sometimes we dance extremly

it's funny how people debate marching band being as sport because 1. it fits the sports definition, and 2. we do some of the same things athletes do and then some

You have to think about being in step, dynamics, tone, choreography, and count all at the same time. It's really hard and it's physically and mentally draining. I wish people would realize how hard it is lol. It's definitely a sport!

We practice more than the football players lmao. We've gotten 1s at every comp this season (just got home from states) and the football team had a 10-0 LOSE TO WIN STREAK.