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Sports are permissible as long as they fall under certain criteria
Sports that help in jihad such as swimming, horse riding, and archery.

Nowadays we have many sports that are akin to the classic sports that are used in jihad

Since the times has changed, would the ruling of these sports change.
Such as gun shooting be the same as archery
and race car driving be the same as horse back riding?

Gymnastics be the same as wrestling or rock climbing?

Could these modern games be the same and carry the same ruling as the games mentioned in the hadiths?

Only 3 games are allowed to be competed for prizes
Archery, camel racing, and horseback riding
but since we live in a time where we no longer use a bow and arrow in war, could archery be changed to gun shooting?
camel racing be changed to car racing?
Times has changed so would rulings change as well?


Games fall into two categories:

The first category is games which help in jihaad for the sake of Allaah, whether that is physical jihaad (fighting) or verbal jihaad (i.e., knowledge), such as swimming, shooting, horse-riding, and games which involve developing one’s abilities and Islamic knowledge, etc. These games are mustahabb and the one who engages in them will be rewarded so long as his intention is good and he seeks to support the religion thereby. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Shoot, O Bani Adnaan, for your father was an archer.” Shooting or archery includes by analogy all similar actions.

The second category is games which do not help in jihaad. These are of two types.

The first type is games which are specifically forbidden in the texts, such as playing with dice as mentioned in the question. These games should be avoided by the Muslim.

The second type is games which are neither enjoined nor forbidden in the texts. These are of two kinds:

The first kind is games which include something that is haraam, such as games that involve statues or images of living beings, or which are accompanied by music, or games which lead to arguments and conflicts among people and result in their saying or doing something bad. These come under the prohibition because of the haraam consequences to which they lead or because they are a means to something that is haraam. If something is the means that usually leads to something that is haraam, then we should refrain from it.

The second type is games which do not involve anything haraam, and which usually do not lead to it, like most of the games we see of football (soccer), volleyball and table-tennis etc. These are permissible, subject to the following restrictions:--Islamqa