Cheerleading is what happens when a big group of girls start loudly asking for someone to give them random letters of the alphabet.
Eventually, when they have collected enough letters, they cheer, and then they shut up, and that is the end of cheerleading.

Cheerleading costumes are shorts, a bra, and a pair of exceedingly hairy gloves known as pom-pons.
Pom-pons are made from cat hair. You know those weird and ugly hairless cat creatures? That's where the hair comes from!
Unfortunately, the high demand for pom-pons means that some cats have been subject to the crime of hair theft.
It is a serious crime, but not quite as serious as when I kicked that trout and got chased.

Where should you go if you want to witness cheerleading?
It tends to occur during exceedingly boring sporting events: so the answer is obviously any cricket match!

The cheerleading is automatically activated as soon as a certain percentage of spectators have fallen asleep.

Out run the cheerleaders, and begin demanding letters of the alphabet, and then cheer!

And there was no louder cheer given than by the cheerleading group 'The Cheer-Chums', who cheered so loudly in 2003 that several nearby birds contemplated become startled!