cheerleading

English

Cheerleading.

Etymology

From cheerlead +‎ -ing.

Noun

cheerleading (uncountable)

1. A physical activity in which cheerleaders organize elements of dance, gymnastics, and tumbling for judgment or to cheer on a team.
   • 2020 November 29, Tess DeMeyer, Ilana Panich-Linsman, “The College Athletes Who Are Allowed to Make Big Bucks: Cheerleaders”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Since its inception in the late 19th century, cheerleading has evolved from yelling encouragement on the sidelines to a competitive hybrid of gymnastics, dance and acrobatics.

2. (figurative) Automatic or servile praise.

Related terms

• cheerleader

Translations

physical activity

• Arabic: تَشْجِيع m (tašjīʕ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 啦啦隊／啦啦队 (zh) (lālāduì), 拉拉隊／拉拉队 (zh) (lālāduì)

• Finnish: cheerleading (fi)
• French: cheerleading (fr) m
• German: Cheerleading n
• Hungarian: vezérszurkolás, vezérszurkolóskodás, cheerleaderség, cheerleaderkedés
• Japanese: チアリーディング (ja) (chiarīdingu)
• Kazakh: чирлидинг (çirlidiñ)
• Korean: 응원 (eung'won), 치어리딩 (chieoriding)
• Kyrgyz: чирлидинг (cirliding)
• Russian: черли́динг (ru) m (čerlíding), чирли́динг (ru) m (čirlíding)
• Spanish: animación (es) f, porrismo m

Verb

cheerleading

1. present participle and gerund of cheerlead

Further reading

• cheerleading on Wikipedia.Wikipedia