Inspired by SDAngel101~ Do you think Cheerleading is a sport?

[EPCOTgrl1]

Yes... they pratice as much as any team cause i watch them... i am in band... you pratice as much as any other sport and you work just as hard!

 

[teh fish]

it seems one of the main reasons that people consider cheerleading a sport is because they do it.

I fail to see that working hard at practice means that it's a sport. No one said that cheerleaders aren't fit or work hard.

my school thought it would be cool; to see the jocks try to cheer so they sent all the jocks to cheerleading pratice for a week needless to say the jocks never told us it wosn't a sport again

I'd like to see the cheerleaders play football/cross country/soccer. Of course the guys aren't going to do it as well, they haven't been doing it as long as the girls have. Oh, and Powder Puff is not playing football.

 

[wDw*CrYsTiNa*iOa]

Cheerleading is a sport just like anything else that involves competitveness and teamwork END OF STORY!!!
~*~Crystina~*~

 

[ShuisFan584]

Originally posted by teh fish
it seems one of the main reasons that people consider cheerleading a sport is because they do it.

I fail to see that working hard at practice means that it's a sport. No one said that cheerleaders aren't fit or work hard.

I'd like to see the cheerleaders play football/cross country/soccer. Of course the guys aren't going to do it as well, they haven't been doing it as long as the girls have. Oh, and Powder Puff is not playing football.

My thoughts exactly! The only reason people consider it a sport is because it's the only thing they do and they want to seem athletic. And if you make cheerleaders try to play other sports, they wouldn't be able to.

I'm not usually into debates, but this topic really gets to me. I'm an athlete and if you ask most other athletes (not cheerleaders), they will agree that cheerleading is not a sport. Running around in little skirts yelling rah-rah is not anything near as competitive as real sports.

 

[wDw*CrYsTiNa*iOa]

I am a cheerleader and I play plenty of other sports, like track and volleyball, and I can do them without complaint and really well. We dont say cheerleading is a sport b/c we do it , we say it because it is, just like figure skaters, or soccer players or anything else. It is a sport no matter how you look at it, we do work hard and not just to cheer at games, to compete against other teams, if it wasnt a sport , there wouldn't be so many cheerleaders out there!!!
Crystina

 

[KingKobra]

Ok here's how I see it....

If i am by myself or whith my friends then i would say no cheerleading is not a sport.

BUT.....if a Cheerleader were to ask me then i may give a different answer

 

[SDAngel101]

Man our cheer squad could be the schools track team! Last week we had conditioning.. running around our track for 45 mins, that was not fun. Then sprints back and forth the football field, lunges back and forth, cockroaches, stairs, and other strange stomach work outs (my coaches boyfriend is in the army so we have some interesting conditioning stuff to do). 3 days in a row, i can run 2 miles without running short on air, I LOVE IT. hehe

 

[WDWfanatic288]

woah!! there are sterotypes going on here!!!

just b/c you are a cheerleader doesn't mean you can't play other sports! one of good friends was a cheerleader and also a great basketball and volleyball player...along with dancing with me and then she did year around softball!!

and not all football players fail their classes

and that's not true! I know I'm not athletic at all! I don't say dancing is a sport so it can seem that way!! b/c there is nothing I can do to change that

cheerleaders work just as hard as any other sport...baseball and hockey and everything

is marching band hard work? YES it is!! not many sports are out in the blazing, hot Texas sun from 3-5 almost every day along with 2 weeks before school starts!! Football does it but a bunch of their stuff is lifting weights and they aren't outside as much
does it keep me in shape..of course it does!
but is it a sport...no...it's a competition


I have an idea!!!
I think of cheerleading as a sport...but it's more a competitive sport!
as in it's like dance,gymnastics and ice skating
everyone works hard for it so it's the athletic ability of a sport
but then you don't directly affect someone else...as in baseball
so it's the atheletic ability of a sport but it's almost more of a competition

so look then we can all agree! lol

b/c this thread has gotten really,really rude and steroptpyical

 

[teh fish]

what i meant about seeing the cheerleaders play a sport, i meant the cheerleaders that aren't on any sports teams, and that post was in reference to an earlier post about the guys sent to cheerleading practice.

I don't consider people standing on the sidelines, yelling out stuff, and doing gymnastics a sport. Competition, on the other hand, is a different story.

 

[TiggerBelle05]

Originally posted by teh fish
I'd like to see the cheerleaders play football/cross country/soccer.

come up to MD and u'll see cheerleaders run cross-country and play soccer. I play soccer & I RUN track. So do all of my other cheerleader friends.

 

[teh fish]

^^^^

what i meant about seeing the cheerleaders play a sport, i meant the cheerleaders that aren't on any sports teams, and that post was in reference to an earlier post about the guys sent to cheerleading practice.

 

[Kiki]

In my opinion, is cheerleading is sport? No, not really. Now, don't bite my head off. I've read all of these posts on all of the four pages (and believe me, it was hard! ) and I saw each side make good points. Maybe it is because I don't do cheerleading and that's why I don't think it is a sport. First of all, there are two different types of cheerleading. The first is the ones that cheer for games. Those are not sports, more just like an art or something. They were just started by enthusiastic crowd members. Competitive cheerleading is a sport in some sense. You are working to beat the other squad's to win a trophy, like in other competitive sports. Gymnastics, I don't think is a sport, just an art, unless you, again, are trying to beat other teams to win something. I don't think dancing is a sport either. It's a form of art. Unless, you guessed it, you are trying to beat other teams. In sports like swimming, soccer, track, football, baseball, etc., you are always playing on a team to beat another to win. Now, let's take Marching Band. My friends in the band are always saying it is a sport. The one's playing at games aren't a team unless they're trying to play faster then the other football team's marching band. If the band goes to a competition, they're fighting for a title or an award or something. Now, someone said track, swimming, and something else are not like contact sports. well, you can consider swimming a contact sport if you drift into another lane ) ) and track is, because you always get trampled in the beginning, and if your hand off is messy you can fall and get stepped on. Quite scary. I just think the sports like soccer, baseball, football, basketball, and all sports like that are just full-contact sports.

Ok, I just wanted to say what I was thinking, even though I'll think of more things to say later

 

[SDAngel101]

well said Kiki

 

[teh fish]

actually, seem to remember a time when swimming is a contact sport. I was heading into the wall when someone did a flip turn and ran right into me. If you are wearing goggles and someone practically head butts your face, goggles make it hurt even more.

 

[Kiki]

Oh yes I know how that feels. One time I was doing a flip in my pool and I crushed my goggles against my face. I had marks around my eyes for the rest of the day

And, not to be mean and a big poop, but I don't think cheerleaders or any other sport for that matter could be the track team, unless they are on the track team. We run up to 8 miles in one practice. Let me tell you, it is some crazy stuff. And I know even 1 or 2 miles are hard when you run it fast for time in school or practice or in a meet, but if you can do it with out breathing hard either a, your super man and you are mad crazy fast, or b, you weren't running hard. but hey, if you really aren't doing track and just doing cheerleading, I wouldn't run hard either.

I think people just don't appreciate others dissing their sport when they love it, is why lot's of people get defensive of cheerleading.

Ok, I have to go now, before any one decides to bite me

 

[SDAngel101]

Yeah i think the whole point of this post was to get people's opinions and not cause a big war against those who think it is a sport and those who dont.

 

[Kiki]

And now you get a 'well said'!

 

[TiggerBelle05]

Originally posted by SDAngel101
Yeah i think the whole point of this post was to get people's opinions and not cause a big war against those who think it is a sport and those who dont.

that was the reason i started this thrad, so im sorry if i offended anyone i was just expressing my opinion like Kiki

 

[Kiki]

are you saying that you're sorry you offended people like me, or that you expressed your opinion like me?

Sorry, easily confused

 

[dis_lovr_04]

ok guys this is just my opinion

cheerleading is not a sport sorry its just not
no one said they dont work hard and do physical activities but its a competition not a sport. And b4 u go yellin at me that i dont know what its like let me just say that some of my closest friends are cheerleaders and they agree. Everyone works hard at something but that doesnt mean we have to go naming it a sport. And who put band in here????????? BAND IS JUST NOT EVEN A SPORT. ITs a fine art.

*steps off soap box*


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