Is cheerleading a sport?

Question

Some say it is, some say it isn't, what's your opinion?

Answer 1

Cheerleading (and figure skating) are not sports. They are specialized popularity contests. The results of their activity cannot be measured by instruments nor can the winner be determined by an indisputable score.

Cheerleaders perform to please some judges who rank those performances strictly on subjective means.

The athleticism and conditioning of these groups are impressive indeed and they are fun to observe, but a sport?

Sorry, no.

Answer 2

Athletes do participate in cheerleading, but it is not a sport.

a sport is played with a ball, puck or object. To win you must score an object into a goal or zone. A sport is played on a court, field, arena or pitch. There are time limits or innings in sports.

Cheerleading is a competition or an exibition. To win a comp, the performance must be judged by humans. A competition that is judged and can be effected by human error is not a sport.

Is cheerleading played with a ball? No
Does cheerleading have its own court or field? NO
How is the winner determined? Judged by people NO sport.
Is there a time limit? NO the cheerleaders could dance all night long, and there is no determination of when it ends, no finish line.

Most cheerleading is done at a football, basketball, hockey, wrestling or some other type of game. Sometimes there are more than one squad, but other times there is just one squad. At the end of a football game, one football team wins. But there is no "winner" for the cheerleaders. In an entire season, Cheerleaders go to alot of games but rarely are judged to pick a winner. In cheerleading competition, there will be one winner, but at these events, there is not a sport to cheer for.
I\f there was no basketball, football, or other sports ect. What would the cheerleaders cheer for?

Cheerleading is an exibition, not a sport.
Use this arguement and you will win everytime, not just for cheerleading but for anything to determine what is considered a sport.
Give me the best answer and ten points.

Answer 3

no it is not. i swear, i hate when stupid preppy fat wanna-be pretty cheerleaders say, "OMG!!! It is so totally a sport."
seriously, get a freaking life...cheer leading isn't that freaking hard and if they say otherwise, they can go do some flips and break their freaking arm in two places....
all they freaking do is shake their not-there *** and pray that they are stared at.....i don't care what anybody says about the definition of a sport because, in my opinion, it isn't so everyone else can go shove it....you asked for my opinion, i gave it to you...
and now people are going to put me down for it and say I'm wrong, well, most likely, they're a cheerleader.....
and yes, sports have scoring and usually referees, cheer leading doesn't....it is just a hobby, sure they train, practice and compete, but doesn't the band? i mean seriously, the band has to learn how to play an instrument(train), practice with the instrument with the band(practice) and the band competes against other bands to win the gold(compete)So let me ask you this.....if being in a band isn't a sport, cheerleading isn't either....if you can't tell, i hate cheerleaders, it makes people stuck up when in reality, they have nothing to be stuck up about....no butt, face isn't cute, and usually they are way too skinny, why like them? because everybody is watching them, everybody wants to be like them....they are the only reason most people actually GO to actual sports games....have you ever noticed how at football games or basketball games, or any REAL SPORT GAME that there are cheerleaders? do you know why the cheerleaders are even there? because the coaches need to draw in attention with fake nasty cheerleaders.....OK, sorry I'm done

Answer 4

Yes it most definately is. It has training, practice, technique, and competitions just like football, baseball, etc. You must also try out to be on the team just like with any other sport. There are even college scholarships for cheerleading awarded to high school cheerleading seniors. I would say that is a sport.

Answer 5

Yes. This is the definition of sport:

Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively.
A particular form of this activity.
An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
An active pastime; recreation.

As far as I know, cheerleading fits all these requirements.

Racing is NOT a sport; I don't care what you say.

Answer 6

It's more a hobby than a sport. You wouldn't say "I'm going to play cheerleading or going to a Cheerleading meet"

Answer 7

First you have to give a definition of sport and then i can determine the category cheerleading falls in.

What is a sport? what is not a sport?

generally some things will fall in between.
categories are never perfect. just a rough method.

Answer 8

It really all depends on if u r really dedicated, because cheerleading is a form of gymnastics. Gymnastics is considered a sport. Its in the Olympics!!!

Answer 9

I would say not in the technical definition of the word but it's definitely just as difficult as any other sport and takes training and hard work.

Answer 10

No it's not a sport. A sport has a scoring system and rules to the game, it also usually has a referee.