Examples of cheerleading

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Cheerleading passes this test with flying colors and 'spirited cheers,' as shown in the picture on the previous page.
Just like cheerleading, it requires practice and is competitive.
In modern times, cheerleading is more and more often referred to as a competitive sport.
Without an objective scoring system, cheerleading cannot be a sport because no clear cut, impartially determined winner can be selected.
On a more serious note, however, cheerleading fits the bill, so to speak, for the first characteristic of a sport.
However, cheerleading is clearly lacking any realistic or recognizable tactic in its arena of play.
The third aspect of a sport, which cheerleading lacks, is an objective scoring system.
However, that is as far as they go before cheerleading becomes ineligible to be a sport.
Even in more simple terms, cheerleading cannot be played; it is not a game.
Cheerleading lacks certain defining characteristics that are the necessary components of a sport and as such has no right to be called one.
However, cheerleading has no such system.
Unfortunately, for those laboring under the delusion that it is a sport, cheerleading happens to be nothing more than a performance, an elaborate ritual, akin to theatre.
Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cheerleading, dance and tennis; while women's sports include basketball, cheerleading, dance, softball, tennis, and volleyball.
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