Cheerleading

Cheerleading is recreational activity and sometimes competitive sport
involving organised routines including elements of dance and gymnastics to
encourage crowds to cheer on sports teams. It is most popular in the United
States. A cheerleading performer is a cheerleader.

Evolving in (all-male) colleges in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
purely as attempts to encourage crowds at their sporting competitions to
cheer, the practice spread and became largely a female activity as time
progressed. Organised cheerleading contests were formed; most high schools
around the U.S.A. had formed cheerleading squads by the 1950s. Today
cheerleading competitions are a ubiquitous feature of American public
schools and universities as well as American professional football. State
and national championships for school and college teams are common, and top
squads take their routines extremely seriously.

Cheerleading has a rather mixed reputation as a serious athletic endeavour.
Cheerleaders are stereotyped in thousands of television shows and movies
(and much American pornography) as vacuous, unintelligent, bitchy,
physically attractive, and sexually available (particularly to members of
the sporting teams for which they cheer), and the routines regarded as
opportunities to expose and highlight their attractive bodies. Cheerleaders
point to the athletic and aesthetic qualities of their routines, and the
extensive physical training and rehearsal required to win competitions - or,
more often, simply ignore this reputation.

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