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Is cheerleading a sport?!

Cheerleading is a sport. Cheereleaders dance, lift people, and compete. It takes strength, endurance, and determination to be a cheerelader. Cheerleaders do more physical activity than most other sports do. The competition part of cheerleading is what most people do not see. They just think cheerleaders jump up and down and cheer for other sports. They are wrong. Cheerleaders do major stunts and tumbling that take real athletes to do. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nlmaurakis (talk • contribs) 04:23, 7 November 2012 (UTC) I think cheerleading is not a sport because they do just jump up and down also they scream words at you. As well as they having sloppy toes and legs they may do tricks but they are not as hats as gymnastic tricks . Gymnastics is the worlds hardest sport so cheerleading is not a sport :) ;). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prince$$eslol (talk • contribs) 14:36, 2 January 2013 (UTC) Look, Cheerleading is not a sport. it is not legally one in the US and to say otherwise would be absurd. You can prove and it has been proven that it is not, not because they scream world and do tricks, but because the vast majority don't compete. While there are some competitive checkers tournaments, having some checkers competitions doesn't make it a sport. Also, just because there are some chess tournaments doesn't make it a sport. Likewise, just because there are some cheerleading tournaments, cheerleading doesn't become a sport.155blue (talk) 20:04, 10 March 2013 (UTC)155blue[reply]

The Benefits to Cheerleading

There are many benefits to cheerleading. Through this activity people gain strength, endurance, responsibility,confidence,and life-long friendships. The girls/guys through stunting, tumbling, jumping, and dancing, learn hard work and its payoffs especially at competition. All the hard work put in at the gym for many hours a week gives the cheerleader endurance and strength. Through stunting you lift up flyers who are at least one hundred pounds, this gives you incredible amounts of muscle and strength. The flyer must stay flexible and strong to be able to hold their body in postitions for varied amounts of time. Having to show up to all practices, in order to better yourself and your squad, teaches the cheerleader responsibility. Cheering in front of large crowds gives the cheerleader confidence. The life-long friendships come from spending so much time with people and all sharing the same goal, to win.Tbird727 (talk) 01:53, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

1 question, if not all cheerleading competes, how is their mutual goal to win?

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Add International Cheer Union (ICU) to Associations, Federations, Organisations section

The International Cheer Union (ICU):[7] Founded in 2004, the ICU is the international governing body for world cheerleading. Including participation from its 103 member National Federations reaching 3.5 million athletes globally, the ICU continues to serve as the unified voice for those to dedicating cheerleading's positive development around the world.

Moduck2013 (talk) 20:26, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

How to Refer to Cheerleading

Should we refer to cheerleading as a sport, an activity, or try to use neither term and use "it" and "cheerleading" or "cheer" when referring to it in order to remain completely neutral? Personally, I prefer the third option.155blue (talk) 21:10, 13 March 2013 (UTC)155blue?[reply]

If you want to copyedit it to "cheerleading" or "cheer", that shouldn't be an issue and would be accurate.
Don't take any of the reverts some of us have been doing personally. Some of us are veterans of the sport/non-sport war that took place here a while ago before the page got semi-protected. It took a long time before we could find a good balance and some of us, myself included (for some bizarre reason), get touchy whenever we perceive that being too far in either direction.Thinkbui (talk) 04:08, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fine, but we shouldn't have originally had the page have 63 uses of "sport" and 0 of "activity". This was what it was before the more recent edits which were put into place.155blue (talk) 12:24, 16 March 2013 (UTC)155blue[reply]

Splitting "Cheerleading in Canada"

As with the Cheerleading with the United Kingdom page, it may not be fit to list all of Cheerleading in Canada in the Cheerleading article. If this continued and cheerleading in every country was discussed, we would have a very lengthy article.00:56, 10 April 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 155blue (talk • contribs)

Edit request on 2 May 2013

Cheerleading is now recognized as a sport... I was wondering if you could correct that is a "physical activity?" Thank you for your consideration. 72.92.102.70 (talk) 02:41, 2 May 2013 (UTC) AS we have discussed above, cheerleading cannot be recognized as a sport without controversy. Due to POV reasons, it needs to be called an intense physical activity. If NCAA and the IOC considered it a sport as well as federal courts, there would be no reason to prevent us from calling cheer a sport. Sorry.69.118.168.2 (talk) 01:32, 3 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  1. ^ Weeks, Adrienne. "Health Beneits of Cheerleading".
  2. ^ Mcostlin, Debra. "The BEnefits of Cheerleading for Teenage Girls".
  3. ^ http://ezinearticles.com/?cheerleading-benefits&id=2136747. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ^ http://benefitof.net/benefits-of-cheerleading/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ http://www.livestrong.com/article/483112-benefits-of-cheerleading-for-girls/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ http://www.divinecaroline.com/22175/27245-sixteen-years-cheerleading-taught-smile. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ^ International Cheer Union (ICU)
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