Can you "play" cheer?

[Anonymous]

English wouldn't make sense there. Since cheer is still considered a sport, at least when it's being done competitively, how can you say you "play cheer", English language wise.

So if someone's favorite sport to play, is cheer (leading), how would you go about saying that so it makes sense, grammar wise

[HelpfulWoman]

"my favourite sport is cheer leading"?

[Asker]

So that's how you'd say it. You can't "play" cheer?

[HelpfulWoman]

I guess, but you'd probably just confuse people. Same as you don't "play" horse riding/being an equestrian.

[Asker]

SO are really then not sports?

[HelpfulWoman]

Of course they are.

[Asker]

Not according to the state

[HelpfulWoman]

the state? as in a state in the US? I mean, in the nicest way, assuming the state knows everything would be dumb as fuck XD

[Asker]

No, when we refer tot the state, we're referring to any state.