Many people argue that cheerleading is not a sport. It has been a very controversial topic for quite some time now. According to Dictionary.com, “an athletic activity requiring skill or physical progress and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling,boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.” Cheerleading fulfills that definition easily and I will tell you how. If you want to compare it to another sport, you can with gymnastics. Gymnastics consist of gymnast tumbling, cheerleaders tumble as well along with doing other things. Dancing is also considered a sport, cheerleading routines have a dance portion in them. Both gymnastics and dancing are involved in cheerleading but they are considered sports and cheering …show more content…
They are not aware of the competitions we go to and really how competitive the cheer world is. Most people only see cheerleaders at games, cheering on their team. And honestly, you do not see much of the cheerleaders. You just see them do some cheers, jumps and maybe stunts. After all they did go to watch the game and not the cheerleaders. Some people also do not believe that it is a sport because of how it used to be. There was a time where cheerleading really was only cheering. They simply just cheered on their team by shouting. Then they started getting risky and daring and trying all these stunts. They were doing crazy, mind blowing things. People caught onto what they were doing and decided to put some rules into place for safety concerns. From that moment to now cheerleading has formed into the amazing “sport” I personally love. Another reason people may not consider cheerleading a sport is because some schools do not go to competitions, competitions are voluntary and competitive at the level decides they want to be at. It is okay for a school cheer team to just cheer for their school, and that is all their fans will see them do. That is really simple and depending on what they do it may be questionable if that type of cheering is a sport or not. One last reason why people may not consider it a sport is basically denial. A lot of people are very stereotypical over cheerleaders and they like to joke them. They do not want to be informed about all the things that are involved. Such as a big football player, he does not want to hear about how a girl that cheers is really just as athletic as