Cheerleading Word Search
A cheerleading word search holds the words of the squad on the sideline and the competition floor: the flyer, the base and the backspot, the pyramid and the basket toss, the liberty and the herkie, the megaphone, the hair bow and the eight count.
Organized cheering started at a University of Minnesota football game on November 2, 1898, when a student named Johnny Campbell got in front of the crowd and led it in a chant. For years cheerleaders were mostly men; women began joining in the 1920s and made up most squads after the Second World War. Lawrence Herkimer, a cheerleader at Southern Methodist University, gave his name to the herkie, a jump with one leg straight out to the side and the other bent under. In 1948 he started the National Cheerleaders Association and its camps.
In a stunt the flyer is the one in the air. The bases hold her feet, and the backspot stands behind, holding her ankles. At shoulder height the stunt is an elevator, and with the bases' arms straight overhead it becomes an extension. For a basket toss the bases grip each other's wrists to make a seat and throw the flyer straight up, often high enough for a twist before she lands back in their arms. Every routine is counted in eights, so the whole squad hits each motion on the same beat.
Free Cheerleading Word Search Online Game
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Cheerleading Word Search Printable Puzzles
Three sheets to choose from, free to print or download as a PDF. Pick a difficulty below, or open the printable Cheerleading word search page to see all three together, generate a fresh grid, and check the full word list.
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Hard
15x15 grid, up to 23 hidden words
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Medium
12x12 grid, up to 15 hidden words
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Easy
10x10 grid, 5 words across and down
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Cheerleading has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.
- Arabesque
- Backspot
- Base
- Basket Toss
- Bow
- Captain
- Chant
- Cheer
- Clasp
- Coach
- Competition
- Cradle
- Crowd
- Eight Count
- Elevator
- Extension
- Flyer
- Formation
- Herkie
- High V
- Hurdler
- Kick
- Liberty
- Megaphone
- Minnesota
- Motions
- Nationals
- Pep
- Ponytail
- Pyramid
- Scorpion
- Sideline
- Skirt
- Spirit Stick
- Spotter
- Squad
- Stunt
- Toe Touch
- Tryouts
- Yell