Have you heard of Superpicks on DSTV? where you can make predictions and win money without staking your money?
if you have not, check it out.
Superpicks.com My question is can it still be called gambling if it is not played with money?
I think yes as you are predicting the future and predicting the future it is called gambling because no one can predict the future correctly always,sometimes we see and choose the favorite team to win in a sport event but most of the time everybody is on a losing run.
This can also increase your desire to start real gambling with real money once you get used to it so even if it is not called gambling in the beginning,it has super high chances leading you to gambling so I would put this in the gambling category.