cheerleading

[cheer-lee-ding]

noun

1. the action or skill of a cheerleader.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cheerleading¹

First recorded in 1950–55; cheer + leading ¹

Example Sentences

On the other side sits Ainsley, who would lose a grade-school spelling bee to a bag of hair extensions yet manages to get into college as a cheerleading squad walk-on.

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As in “Cheer,” the aim is to win at the cheerleading nationals in Daytona Beach.

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Her expertise was important to them as was getting the world of cheerleading right.

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Claire McCarthy, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, advises parents to spread their compliments, love and cheerleading evenly among their children to avoid resentments or emotional fallout later in life.

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A cheerleading chorus of so-called conservatives in the media eased the way.

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