Argument why cheerleading is a sport

The first part of the definition was "an athletic activity requiring skill or prowess". I don't know how many of you had actually paid attention to the cheerleaders besides just looking at them based off their looks, but their formations, flips, tumbles and tosses are kind of difficult to pull off.

I don't know if you and one of your friends have ever tried to chuck a hundred pound or more person in the air and catch him or her before, but it doesn't seem very easy to me. On to the next part, "requiring skill or prowess. This is pretty straight forward. The basic purpose of a cheerleader is to either spur on competitiveness or to express it themselves.

If you have ever seen a cheer competition, then you know how competitive these girls and sometimes guys can be. They get very into their routine and can get as into it as somebody could get into a football game. This however, may be a bad example of a sport because I know that people can get really into anything and be competitive over something that isn't a sport.

Now that we're done picking apart the official definition of a sport, let's compare it to other things that are recognized as sports that are remarkably similar to cheerleading. For those of you who do not know me, my name is Andrew Every year, schools team up for St. Jude to raise money and awareness for patients at St.

Get fit this summer — one letter at a time! Feeling unmotivated to get up and move this summer? Stunting… check! Competition… check! It must be governed by rules that explicitly define the time, space, and purpose of the contest and the conditions under which a winner is declared.

So far, cheerleading is four for four! But there are still two more qualifications to meet for cheerleading to be considered a sport. This is where your argument ends.

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Jude to raise money and awareness for patients at St. The definition of a high school sideline cheerleading is a cheerleader who stands on the sideline to cheer on their team. The definition of a competitive cheerleader is an athlete who performs a routine for 2 minutes and 30 seconds, doing stunts, tumbling, and jumps. In competitive cheer you go to competitions and perform and get judged, however, in sideline cheerleading there is really no judging besides the crowd watching the game.

Cheerleading is a sport for so many different reasons, it teaches you commitment, pushes you past your limits, and allow you to achieve a goal. Commitment is a lifelong skill that is good to have. Cheerleading teaches many individuals on how to commit to something because it is a team sport. My coaches have always told me that there is no I in Team and that is true. Sideline cheerleaders do stunts as well, they are not as intense as competitive cheerleading stunts are.

However, they still need to commit to doing the stunts. This goes for tumbling as well, committing to doing your tumbling is important because if you change your mind at the last second something can go wrong and you can get extremely injured. Nobody really knows how exhausting it can be to perform a routine for 2 minutes and 30 seconds. Cheerleading pushes athletes past their limits and this is why cheerleading is a sport.

Cheerleading gives athletes stamina and endurance to complete a routine that they knew thought that they could do.