I suspect 90% of wintersport questions will be about snow-sports. Is 90% of one tag being another, more specific tag a problem?
Should people wanting to know if they can go bobsledding in the Carribean use something like ice-sports instead?
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I don't think snow-sports OR ice-sports are useful tags.
99% of people, when asked to categorise bob-sledding or skiing or ice skating or anything involving snow and/or ice, are going to call it "winter sports". I don't see why a subdivision of wintersport is necessary considering that people who are experts about "snow-sports" are probably going to know a lot about "ice-sports" as well, considering that in a lot of situations the terms are interchangeable.
I just don't think that most people would even think to search the term "snow-sports".
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You forget that we can always make synonym mappings. Commented Dec 10, 2011 at 3:14
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I think merging "snow sports" into "winter sports" makes more sense than renaming "winter sports" to "ice sports". If we did that then pretty soon we'd get a question about a winter sport involving neither snow nor ice, not that I can think of one right now (-: Commented Dec 10, 2011 at 14:31