Cheerleading, Sport Or Not?

by **Mazzocchi** on Fri Jul 01, 2005 6:01 pm

No

what does everyone think?

by **COOLmac©** on Fri Jul 01, 2005 6:04 pm

is wrestling a sport?
you think this one out

by **Mazzocchi** on Fri Jul 01, 2005 6:11 pm

COOLmac© wrote:is wrestling a sport?
you think this one out

No.

and if by "Wrestling" you mean WWE, and ECW, and stuff... No. No it's not.
If you mean actuall wrestling, like they do in High School, and Olympics, yes that is a sport.

by **Null17** on Fri Jul 01, 2005 6:30 pm

no...just like how i don't consider figure skating to be a sport...sorry to the figure skaters out there...

by **SkipToMy_Lou** on Fri Jul 01, 2005 6:37 pm

Hell no, either is all the other bullshit they show on ESPN for example. Poker, Dog shows, juggling... :roll:

by **COOLmac©** on Fri Jul 01, 2005 6:39 pm

i agree with both of your comments guys (Y)

i don't think we have figure skaters here null :wink:

by **Mazzocchi** on Fri Jul 01, 2005 6:42 pm

SkipToMy_Lou wrote:Hell no, either is all the other bullshit they show on ESPN for example. Poker, Dog shows, juggling...

Yeah haha dog shows, poker, scrabble. all that crap.

and IMO, annything they don't cover on SportsCenter... isn't a sport.

by **Boyk** on Fri Jul 01, 2005 7:25 pm

Mazzlowcchi™ wrote:
SkipToMy_Lou wrote:Hell no, either is all the other bullshit they show on ESPN for example. Poker, Dog shows, juggling...

Yeah haha dog shows, poker, scrabble. all that crap.

and IMO, annything they don't cover on SportsCenter... isn't a sport.

Whats funny Mazz, is i have seen them show Poker and Dog Shows on Sportscentre............its quite sad.

by **Mazzocchi** on Fri Jul 01, 2005 7:29 pm

Boyk wrote:
Mazzlowcchi™ wrote:
SkipToMy_Lou wrote:Hell no, either is all the other bullshit they show on ESPN for example. Poker, Dog shows, juggling...

Yeah haha dog shows, poker, scrabble. all that crap.

and IMO, annything they don't cover on SportsCenter... isn't a sport.

Whats funny Mazz, is i have seen them show Poker and Dog Shows on Sportscentre............its quite sad.

Wow... I must be lucky :doh:

by **Fresh8** on Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:04 pm

Damn.. and cheerleading was the only thing I could do a lil... I mean, the suits are fun and tight! (Y)

nuh, cheerleading aint a sport, heck, we dont even have that cheerleaders hype out here in Oz.. not like the States at least....

by **Filip** on Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:04 pm

How the hell could chearleading be a sport Mazz?

@LAST.FM · by **iG®** on Fri Jul 01, 2005 11:22 pm

And how the hell chess can be a sport. Olympic one?

by **Its_asdf** on Sat Jul 02, 2005 12:05 am

Cheerleading is just inegrated into a sport, like basketball or football, but it clearly is not a sport.

Why the hell would you make a thread about stupid crap like this?

by **Andreas Dahl** on Sat Jul 02, 2005 1:10 am

1. No, I don't think it's a sport at all, but it could as well be since it's basicly the excact same thing as synchronized swimming* if you take away the water.

2. Moved to Other Sports.

* Little known fact, is that Sweden is the only country that officially has a synchronized swimming team for men.

by **Null17** on Sat Jul 02, 2005 2:22 am

It's_Asdf wrote:Cheerleading is just inegrated into a sport, like basketball or football, but it clearly is not a sport.

Why the hell would you make a thread about stupid crap like this?

it's a legitimate question seeing as there are cheeleading/cheerdancing competitions and stuff and they show it on espn/espn2...kinda like poker :roll:

by **Jackal_** on Sat Jul 02, 2005 8:44 am

Null17 wrote:no...just like how i don't consider figure skating to be a sport...sorry to the figure skaters out there...

sport ( P ) Pronunciation Key (spôrt, sprt)
n.

1. Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively.
2. A particular form of this activity.
3. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
4. An active pastime; recreation.

Read that over a few times.

"Active"

Yeah figure skating might be the queerest sport out there, but it's technically a sport bud. Things like Dog shows are just ridiculous.

Therefore, Cheerleading is a sport.

by **AlwaysWhat,NeverWhy** on Sat Jul 02, 2005 9:11 am

and often engaged in competitively.

and often undertaken competitively.

Unless there are strict rules about winning, losing, points, goals... there is no measure for competition. Unless there are judges involved. I don't think cheerleading uses a point system and a group of judges, so it's not really a sport.

by **Jackal_** on Sat Jul 02, 2005 9:13 am

Unless there are strict rules about winning, losing, points, goals... there is no measure for competition. Unless there are judges involved. I don't think cheerleading uses a point system and a group of judges, so it's not really a sport.

lol, dude there are judges and I'm sure there are point systems. If you think about the competitions that is.

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Sat Jul 02, 2005 2:10 pm

As Legend has pointed out, by definition competitive cheerleading is a sport. Having said that, despite the fact it has elements that are physically challenging, I wouldn't hold it in the same esteem as gymnastics, track and field, swimming and ball sports.

by **Jackal_** on Sat Jul 02, 2005 2:54 pm

Andrew wrote:As Legend has pointed out, by definition competitive cheerleading is a sport. Having said that, despite the fact it has elements that are physically challenging, I wouldn't hold it in the same esteem as gymnastics, track and field, swimming and ball sports.

I agree with that statement. I was just looking at the technicality of it.

(Y)

by **Null17** on Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:30 am

meh, judges aren't really a concrete way of measuring and stuff to be considered a sport for me but technically of course it is a sport. just like chess is.

by **Fresh8** on Sun Jul 03, 2005 4:24 pm

sport is any excercise in which a part of the body is being used that tires it says a friend of mine duringa debate on whether chess is a sport. We concluded since chess requires constant usage of the arms and mental capcity of humans, it qualifies as a sport!

by **Andreas Dahl** on Sun Jul 03, 2005 7:12 pm

Sit wrote:We concluded since chess requires constant usage of the arms and mental capcity of humans, it qualifies as a sport!

So does eating (with cutleries)... :roll:

by **Jackal_** on Mon Jul 04, 2005 2:19 pm

Andreas Dahl wrote:
Sit wrote:We concluded since chess requires constant usage of the arms and mental capcity of humans, it qualifies as a sport!
So does eating (with cutleries)...

nice nice

by **COOLmac©** on Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:45 pm

so a slam dunk contest is a sport?
i thought it is a show or an entertainment

after reading the diffenition of sport
now i can truly say wrestling is a riggedsport :lol:

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