In addition to cheering for traditional football and basketball games, cheerleaders began to support all sports in the school. In the spring of 1978, CBS broadcast the school cheerleading event to the whole United States for the first time through television. Since then, cheerleaders have been recognized as a serious sport. At this time, the skills of cheerleaders have been greatly improved, such as gymnastics, pyramid building, and jumping into the air.

Cheerleaders are sports that appear in the form of teams, combine dance, slogans, dance partner stunts, cooperate with elements such as music, clothing, team shape changes and marking items (such as colored balls, slogan boards, speakers and flags), and abide by the provisions of the game rules on gender, number of people, time limit, safety rules, etc. to compete. They are called competitive cheerleaders, also called cheerleaders.