I definitely think its a sport! I'm a big fan of cheer leading and am about to start. People who say cheer isn't a sport, obviously don't know how hard cheerleader work. Now there are two kinds of cheer. School Cheer and Allstar/competitive cheer. Some people think that school cheer isn't a sport and Allstar is, Some people think both, and others think none of them are. I think Allstar is harder then school cheer and a lot more work, but I think they are both sports. They both require a lot of practice, work, and training. In football, you catch and throw a ball. In cheer you catch and throw PEOPLE. They throw the flyers like 20 feet in the air and they rely on 4 people to catch them. The tumbling and jumps they do require a lot of strength and flexibility. They have to be tight in all of their motions and they have to memorize the choreography. They go through hours of practice to get their routine perfectly. In the competitions, they have to make sure they all look nice and if they don't their team gets points deducted. Everyone's performance affects the team, and if one person does something a little off, points can get deducted. I don't get why anyone would say cheer leading isn't a sport. If anything its more of a sport than anything else. They work just as hard, maybe even harder, then people who play other sports like football. I know cheerleaders have that stereotype of being conceited bitches, but that's not true. I'll admit some girls think that they re all that but most don't. So yes I do think cheer leading is a sport.

I'm not trying to cause any problems, and i'm most definitely not saying it's easy. But to me, and call me stupid, i like to think of a sport as an athletic GAME. Now i don't publicly argue this too much as i know that that's technically the definition of a sport. But that's just what i like to believe. So to me, Gold, Cheerleading, Nascar, etc. Those don't seem like sports to me. Although i couldn't do any of them, i don't believe i'd call them a sport. Like i said before this is just a personal belief, call me stupid i don't care.

yes and i am not saying this because im a cheerleader, im saying it because a non-cheerleader would not be able to take the amount of stuff we do at a practice

Have you seen these girls. They have more muscle than some soccer players or volleyball players. It's competitive. It's on a team. You have to practice. You work at it to get better. What else do you need to be a sport??

Definitely a sport. It takes a lot of effort to do what they do.

Sport, you have to lift at least 100lbs, be able to bend and flip yourself to compete, and you have another persons life to worry about.