Ok so i just made the cheerleading team for my first year and i love it, im a base and its so much fun. But it really makes me mad how nobody thinks its a sport, ok for one thing we dont cheer at basket ball or hockey games becasue cheerleading is ITS OWN sport itself. We have to run stretch do sit ups and push ups and crunches, and we have to be able to hold people up in the air, be able to throw them up in the air then catch them, so Id like any fo you hockey players or basket ball players to try to do what we do. So please everybody leave their comments here.
2006-11-08 07:33:09 · 8 answers · asked by Janelle S. 4 in Sports ➔ Other - Sports
Here is a definition of "sport" from Wikipedia:
"A sport is an activity requiring physical ability, physical fitness or physical skill which usually, but not always, involves competition between two or more people."
I would say that competitive and sideline cheerleading are sports. There is physical demand and there are several physical skills that not everybody can posses, and it is not necessary to compete to be considered a sport.
I was never a cheerleader, I was one of those male major sport athlete where the cheerleaders cheered for me! And I can't do those things that they do!
2006-11-08 07:41:43 · answer #1 · answered by Keif 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I play volleyball, softball and basketball, and I definitely believe cheerleading is a sport. It's competitive and physical, the two basic fundamentals of any sport.
2006-11-08 15:47:35 · answer #2 · answered by ebonys_finest 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cheerleading is a sport, just like Marching band is a sport....most people don't agree with either but I do....
2006-11-08 15:44:38 · answer #3 · answered by Shawny 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I personally don't think it's a sport, and people figure that of me because I am a soccer junkie, but I don't really think it's a sport, just because. Sure you have to be athletic, but you also have to be pretty athletic to skateboard, but it isn't considered a sport.
2006-11-08 15:49:51 · answer #4 · answered by OLPfan93 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You definatly have to be athletic,we watched the championships in Daytona this past spring.Lots of hard work and dedication.I would say YES
2006-11-08 15:38:41 · answer #5 · answered by Byron R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are ugly girls allowed to do it? They are allowed to do all other sports.
2006-11-08 15:52:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
OH OH i think its a sport NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!\
GO TITANS
MORT
2006-11-08 15:39:43 · answer #7 · answered by Mortdesuper 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do.
2006-11-08 19:55:18 · answer #8 · answered by cat 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋