What is the sport curling?
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A stone is slid on the ice into a target area.  It is sort of like shuffleboard.  The link below will help you learn more.
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Hey there,\nIf you are interested, just call the closest curling club and tell them that you are interested in trying curling out. Usually the club manager is the person who you should ask to talk to. They're usually more than happy to come in and let you try it, and answer any questions. The link below lists the curling clubs for MN :)\n\nhttp://www.goodcurling.net/basics/U.S.%20clubs/minnesota.html
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A curling game is made up of 8 or 10 ends (like innings).  The curling team consists of four players.  Curling teams are traditionally identified by the last name of the team "Skip"" (the captain).  An end consists of each team member shooting (delivering) two rocks (curling stones), alternating with the team members of the competing team.\n\nA 12-foot circle (the house) is the scoring area.  For each stone closer to the center of the circles than any of the opponent's stones, one point is scored.  The team scoring shoots first in the next end, giving the opponent the "hammer", or last shot of that end.  The sheet of ice (playing surface) is 15'71/2" wide and 146 feet long, set up to accommodate play in both directions.\n\nAll four players shoot two rocks, beginning with the "Lead" player.  The "Second" shoots next followed by the "Vice Skip"." The Skip shoots the last rocks and directs the play of the others." The skip decides on shot selection and signals the players." The shooter must be accurate in aim, weight (velocity in delivery) and giving the rock the correct "handle" (or curl).\n\nEach running stone curls (curves) as it proceeds down the ice depending on the twist it was given during delivery.  The curl allows for better control of the stone.  Team members sprint along the path of the stone and sweep with curling brooms to control the curl and the speed.  Sweeping slightly melts the ice, which reduces the friction between the running stone and the ice surface.  The result is the stone will curl less and slide farther.
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Wrong kind of ice game. A sweeper is a position in curling. Sweeping helps with getting the stone down to the house where the skip wants it placed (in a nutshell).
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Luge and Bobsledding.\nThey do not have men's pairs dancing, and curling is 3 men.
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Okay, first of all, a lot of these answers are silly. I play, and honestly, it mostly comes down to how polite you really are. There is a lot of politeness involved. You should always shake hands before and after the games, compliment each other's shots, be a team player, and be curtious. You can be disqualified if you don't have four players for the open draw of the bonspeil though. I guess, it's more if people don't want you to play, they'll just ask you to leave, there is hardly any disqualification. \n\nAs to touching a rock after you release it, it isn't as much of a disqualification of the player, but of the Rock. If you touch it (burn as it is known in curling jargon) then you simply take it out of play.
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This is curling, not skateboarding.
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The U.S. had both a Men's and Women's curling team in the 2002 Winter Olympics.\n\nYou can find their names and brief bios at:\n\nhttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2002/uscurling_bios/
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It is generally agreed that curling originated in my beloved Scotland.  An actual stone was discovered in recent years with the date 1511 etched into it.
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sport is Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. \nand game is A competitive activity or sport in which players contend with each other according to a set of rules: the game of basketball; the game of gin rummy. I hope this helps
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The curling stone or rock used in the game weighs a maximum of 44 lbs. (19.96 kg) and is fitted with a handle on top allowing it to be rotated as it is released.\n\nThe Scots in particular believe that the best quality curling stones are made from a specific type of granite called "Ailsite", found on the Ailsa Craig, an island off the Ayrshire coast. Most curling stones are made from this granite. Because of the particular rarity of Ailsite, costs for curling stones can reach as much as $500 (CAD).
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Is curling really a sport?  I thought you had to sweat in the matches to be a sport.
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Curling is a joke\nhahaha sorry, I love curling, but I don't know any jokes about it\n\nIt's easy to make fun of, I guess... :-&#92;
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Ice Hockey, closely followed by the revelation that is Curling.\n\nAnd yes, I dearly miss watching those lovely Johnson sisters on the US Women's team. ;)
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Curling is played on a rectangular sheet of prepared ice into which two round, painted, archery-like targets (called the house) have been embedded. The game involves two teams of four players. These teams are called rinks and named for the team’s captain, who is known as the “skip”. Each team has eight polished granite stones, called stones or rocks, with which they try to score.\n\nDuring each round of play, called an end, each player slides two stones along the surface of the ice. Play alternates between teams, each throwing one stone on their turn. The person throwing the stone influences where the stone stops by the amount of force used, called the weight, the spin (turn), and the direction of the throw. Additionally, the final position of the stone is changed by sweeping or brushing the path in front of the stone to reduce curl and increase distance. Once all the stones have been thrown during an end, the score is determined and the play reverses direction back to the other house.\n\nThe players are known as the lead, second, third and skip, and traditionally throw stones in that order . The skip acts as the team’s captain, determining the position played by each player, strategy during the game, holding the broom in the house as a target for the shooters, and representing the rink. However, there is nothing in the rules to say where in the order the skip plays and in recent years the skip has thrown second or third stones on some teams.\n\nThe basic goal of each end is to have your curling stones nearer to the center of the target once all the stones from both teams have been thrown for that end. Therefore, the maximum number of points a team can earn per end is eight, though this is extremely rare because only the closest stones belonging to one of the two teams are counted. Strategies used during play, such as blocking (guard) and hitting rocks to reposition them (bump) or remove them from play (take-out) lead to lower scores. The term draw is used to describe a shot that comes to rest in the house without making contact with another stone. To peel means to remove both the target stone and the shooter's stone from play. For more information, see Types of shots below.\n\nTo help ensure the stone lands where intended, the skip stands in the house and indicates to the player throwing where to aim given the desired effect of the shot. The other two players sweep in front of the rock. Once thrown, players may not touch a stone while it is moving, so sweeping is the only way to influence the stone once thrown. Games, called matches, usually last eight ends, though in competitive curling there are usually ten ends and some recreational games last six ends.
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Cricket can take days to finish, but as far as pace goes - curling.  I fell in love with the sport after the Olympics, but when you have a sport that allows you 1 hour of "discussion time", how much action can you have?!
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I think because anything classified as a sporting event it requires a certain degree of athleticism, skill, practice, dedication, and (in the case of team sports) team-work; add in an opportunity to test your levels against others to find out who is best and you have a sporting event(you mentioned NASCAR in your question details... driving a car in a big circle for a couple of hours doesn't require much athleticism either, but it is still considered a sport, right?)\n\nNow why it is considered an Olympic event... well, it is a sport with growing popularity in many countries that participate in the Olympics (Canada, many of the northern European countries, and a growing fan-base in the northern United States), and the Olympics have been a fairground for countries to show off new and/or unusual sporting events from around the world (Ice Dancing... the poor-man's figure skating OR "I'm just doing this until Disney-on-Ice calls me in for an interview!").  Some of the events catch on and become world-wide phenomenons, others fizzle and die.\n\n<Added>I added athleticism to the list of skills needed because there is a degree of athleticism to curling that you don't find in other strategy games (chess, for example). I mean, watch the curlers in the Olympics. They are running around on ICE for Pete's sake! Any time I step on ice I fall on my... personality... but these guys are running up and down the ice as if they were walking in the grass! And it isn't just the shoes they wear. I saw a documentary on the U.S. Olympic curling team and they showed people trying to do it and they were falling all over the place.