People say cheerleading isn't a sport but i feel like it is because we work hard and we get hurt just like football and or basketball players.  We have long hard practices like them also.  We should known as a sport but were not.
208641
cause they are stupid!!!! and they probably have never been in cheer and seen all the hard work that cheerleaders  put into cheerleading\npeace&&love♥\nOCwahine
567773
I am a cheerleader and of course cheerleading is a sport!!!!!!\nit actually is the most dangerous sport in the world too!!!! more people get injured in it then any other sport.....\n\nit is a sport because you run around, scream as loud as you can, lift and throw ppl up into the air, do jumps, and do gymnastics....\n\nanyone that thinks cheer isnt a sport...i would really like to see them try to do all-star cheer, or any kind of cheer at that
677156
I agree with you. I'm a guy cheerleader and at first i thought it would be easy. I was wrong!! I think it is one of the hardest things i do, and i have an all new respect for it. Well good luck with cheerleading and don't listen to those people who don't know any better.
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I personally would do cheerleading. Cheerleading is a very fun and challenging sport and if you love it I would do it. Basketball and hip hop are cool too and i can understand if you love them too. Hip hop dancing is kind of in a way part of cheerleading and basketball is only one season. I would definitely do cheerleading.
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You certainly don't want to hear someone say this but please keep one thing in mind, not every person that tries out for a team get chosen.  Maybe there is a reason that you can't get it.  Maybe you are not cut out to be a cheerleader, maybe you should be on the team that is getting cheered on?
146995
Cheerleading is judged similarly to gymnastics and figure skating, and those sports are in the olympics. They are also very physically demanding. So yes cheerleading competitions are sports.
587587
I do think alot of people think it is a guys game....I went to football tryouts in school and chose not to play. I just wanted to make a point...that girls can play if they really want.(and i am a small girl)
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I think it's a sport.  Here's my watered down way of looking at it.  \n\nIf it makes you sweat (burn calories) and it can be competitive, it's a sport.\n\nIf it doesn't make you sweat, but it's still competitive, then it's a competition or a game.
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I don't think a lot of people realize how competitive and athletic cheerleading has become.  I think back to when I was in high school and all the cheerleaders did back then was dance a little and kick a little and shake their pom-poms and lead cheers and look all cute and perky.\n\n"Rah rah ree, kick 'em in the knee!\n Rah rah razz, kick 'em in the other knee!"\n\nIn fact, in my high school, and I'm sure in most others at the time - this was about 25 years ago now - cheerleaders were voted on by the student body, so it was as much a popularity contest as it was anything else.\n\nI look at the junior high and high school cheerleader squads nowadays, and I'm seeing all sorts of flips and throws and athletic stunts that they would have thought to be absolutely insane back when I was that age.  \n\nAs far as what to do to explain to people what cheerleading is now as opposed to how they remember it?  Perhaps when you have your sign-up nights, you could arrange to have some videos running that show competitions and what the girls will be expected to do, or have some visual of that nature, maybe even a demo or two by your current squad, so that the parents and the girls can see how cheerleading has evolved into the sport it is now, rather than the primping and giggling that it used to be.
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i am and cheerleading is most definately a sport! we have competiotons and we run and work hard for our stunts and stuff i ring any guys neck that says it isnt because fottball is just a excuse for a bunch of men to pounch on each other pretending to fight for a ball i bet they like being on top of each other lol email me if ya want to chat bout stuff
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For anything to be classified as a true sport, I would say it would have to have some violence in it since it is largely physical competition, but violence is not the essence of sport.\n\nI don't think it creates a double standard because doing something 'in sport' means doing so without malice--with the intention of bettering oneself or testing one's ability.\n\nIn most cases, sports are being better regulated and using more protective equipment. In boxing, for example, gloves with thicker padding are being used to help protect the fighters' long-term health.\n\nOf course there are many fans who watch sports just to see people get hurt, but these are also the same people who slow down to a snail's pace when driving by an automobile accident on the freeway so they can get a better look. I doubt violence in sports is the cause of it.\n\nAnyhow, most fighters are conditioned well to take that kind of punishment without much damage and undergo much medical testing, so it's rare to see someone seriously hurt in the ring. \n\nThough I hate seeing people get hurt, I'm still a boxing fan. I think it's amazing how people can discipline themselves so well and have that amount of speed, strength or agility. I like to see how fighters with different styles will react to each other in the ring. And whenever a fighter gets seriously hurt, I'm glad when the referee stops the fight to protect the fighter. I'm not paying to see the violence.
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It's not a major sport, and it's definitely isnt the NFL's minor league, NFL EUrope and college plays that role.  It's a fun little niche sport that really isn't to bad.
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I DONT THINK ITS A SPORT AND HERES WHY. IF YOU WIN BY BEING JUDGED, NOT BY SCORING POINTS LIKE IN FOOTBALL OR BASEBALLOR FROM BEING TIMED LIKE BOBSLEDDING, I DONT THINK IT CAN BE A SPORT. JUDGING IS TOO SUBJECTIVE. WHILE I THINK DANCING AND ICE SKATING ARE VERY ATHLETIC EVENTS, THAT DOESNT MAKE THEM SPORTS
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If you're shy, cheerleading probably isn't the best thing for you.  Cheerleaders have to exude personallity, it's hardto do that when you're shy.
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It is a sport, by any definition. People can say they don't think blue is a color either, but that doesn't mean they have any real facts to back up their assertions.
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Yes. It's fun, it can be competitive, you can have teams, you keep score, people try their best, it is a physical activity. I think that qualifies it as a sport.
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YES!!! It is a sport!!! I'm a cheerleader and I KNOW it is!!! All these other people say it isn't but it's because they don't really kno what goes into it. I mean you don't see football players having to do handstands and the pushups while in the handstand!!!! there's NO PADS, NO HELMETS, NO BENCH!!! When we get hurt....we seiously get hurt. We've had flyers break there legs because they landed wrong, bases break there arms from trying to catch girls, i mean COME ON!!! Are you guys seriously so unconfident in your masculinity that you have to down grade girls who can kikck your A**???? I mean SERIOUSLY me and the girls on my squad are in better shape than most guys at our schools. Like my favorite slogan says.... "OTHER ATHLETES LIFT WEIGHTS, CHEERLEADERS LIFT ATHLETES"!!!! ZIf you don't believe it's a sport all I can say is SCREW YOU!!!