Question by mo0ink: Why do girls think cheerleading is a sport?
Cheerleading is a primary purpose is to support the “athletic teams.” In other words, if cheerleading was sport, why does it support or encourages other athletic teams?
For instance, football cheerleaders, basketball, hockey ect.
Another reason why cheerleading is not sport is because there is no “clear” way of defining a winner. For instance, judges decide the winner and awards the points.
Competitive cheerleading is no exception—-it’s just “dancing.”
Although they say it is hard work, it might be, but chess is also hard work and pretty much everyday life is. Gymnastics is a sport, because it is governed by it’s own rules and customs. They have obstacles that they must overcome. For instance, they have the balance beam, uneven bars, ect.
Cheerleading does not.
In all other sports, they have a ball or a puck to pass to each other and we can clearly see a winner. Cheerleading does not, only the sidelines where they “cheer” a sport like basketball or football. For those who believe other words, why does a sport cheer another sport on the sidelines?
Cheerleading is not a sport. I am not trying to hurt your ego, just using logic.
Also, is society being dumbed down?
Random when you say people are dumb, does that include yourself?
Seriously, get real.
Best answer:
Answer by lemes03
A sport is defined as an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature. Now granted Cheerleading is done on the sidelines for many other sports, they still go out and compete like everybody else. It requires skill and power. It seems to fit the definition to me.
Cheerleading competitions are governed by it’s own rules as well, they have a certain amount of time, have to stay on the mat, have 2 parts a cheering part and the dancing/throwing part.
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the only argument FOR cheerleading in regards to it being considered a sport would be the fact that many of the movies in competitive cheerleading (not that high school “go team go” crap) are closely related to moves you would see in gymnastics. so some would argue that if gymnastics is a sport so is competitive cheerleading. however i consider that comparison to be a stretch, probably one made up by the very supportive cheer community that what there little sally sue to think shes an athlete because she can do a cart wheel.
Dance is a sport too, but it doesn’t contain a “ball” to pass around.
Gymnastics is also a definite sport.
I’m not a cheerleader, I’m just stating why this is considered a sport.
http://www.helium.com/items/247842-why-cheerleading-is-a-sport
First of all: People, for the most part, are dumb. they always have been. (The salem witch trials?) No one in my AP biology freshman class (but me) know what Ebola, a potentially population destroying viruses is. Most people, are in fact, quite dumb.
Second: Have you ever done cheering? Clearly not. Further more, cheerleading has rules too, and it takes hard work. You try doing a fifteen second handstand, or doing a cheer routine (which involves tumbling, dancing, jumping and stunting) and you’ll see the difference between chess and cheering. Yes, chess is hard, to the mind. Cheering works the body, and every part of it at that. Try it before you say it isn’t a sport.