Is cheerleading...?

Question

Your opinion.. is cheerleading a sport?

Answer 1

HECK YEAH.

well all-star cheerleading is.

they have said its ONE of the most dangerous.!

Answer 2

Cheerleading is most definitely a sport. It requires endurance, flexibility, strength, teamwork and trust to be able to do acrobatic stunts, back flips, preps (when they lift and throw other girls into the air), and elaborately coordinated dancing.

     Those girls practice for hours on end to get routines right. I think that what they do is not necessarily sport like, and the girls don't always behave very sportsmanlike,  but the qualities and characteristics the girls must posses to achieve their routines are the same qualities and characteristics any other sports team must have.

Answer 3

Um...YES!! It soo is, and someone else made an awesome point - if chess is a sport then cheerleading defiantely is!! And someone else made a really bad point and said - cheerleaders are dancers who've gone soft. Umm we do dancing plus gymanastics/tumbling and stunting!! So that is pretty much the opposite.

Answer 4

Uh not really. "Cheerleaders are dancers who have gone soft" - Bring It On. I don't know why I watched that movie... But I've been a dancer for almost nine years now, and dancing really isn't a sport either. But it is exercise.

Answer 5

YES! people dont realize what we put into this sport! i mean really! it is a hard sport! we have to compete, we have to be persistent. YES!

Answer 6

No, but if you girls want to call it one, fine by me. Just as long as I can call chopping firewood for the winter a sport.

Answer 7

yes it is.  i believe, ifs it on ESPN , then its a sport.

Answer 8

yes, since you break a sweat and ocasionally there's competition.

if chess is a sport, than cheerleading has to be