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Cheerleaders keep the spirit of a basketball game high. Fans wait in anticipation of what local and national cheerleading squads present at each and every basketball game. Hometown or NBA, if your cheerleaders need some new basketball cheers, this guide should help.
Step 1:

Know the short forms. For most basketball cheers that you find below, short forms will be used to denote certain actions throughout the cheer. Here are the basics:

  • X = clap
  • P or * = pause
  • S = stomp

These should help you to understand and try some of the new basketball cheers you'll be trying.

Step 2:

Learn an offensive cheer. If your basketball team is headed down the court, encourage them with this cheer:

Take it down, take it down, take it (x) down, down.

Put it up, put it up, put it (x) up, up.

Shoot it in, shoot it in, shoot it (x) in, in.

Take it down (S, S).

Put it up (S, S).

Shoot it in (S, S).

Let's win!

Another great offensive basketball cheer is this one:

We're heading for a basket.

We're moving down the floor.

We are the mighty (team name).

And we know we're gonna score.

Just like a lion with a mighty, mighty roar,

(X,X,S,S,X,X,S,S)

Go ahead, sit down, you cannot score.

This is a fun, fast-paced basketball cheer for when your star player is making his way down the court with the basketball:

Run, run, run the floor.

Raise, raise, raise the score.

Run the floor.

Raise the score.

2 (P) points (P) more!!

Step 3:

Learn this celebratory basketball cheer. If your basketball team has just scored, this cheers will keep your fans pumped.

Hey (team name)!

Do you hear?

That's our victory so near!

Gather ‘round.

What's that sound?

Swissssssshhhh. (X.X, S, S, X, X).

Swissssssshhhh. (X.X, S, S, X, X).

(repeat this cheer twice).

Step 4:

Learn some basic basketball cheers for any part of the game. If your cheerleaders just want to keep the fans and players motivated, any of these basketball cheers will do.

Come on (player's name),

Grant our wish!

All we wanna hear

Is swish.

Another short basketball cheer is this one:

Dribble it (X, X)

Pass it (X, X)

We (P) want (P)

A basket! (X, X)

A great cheer that the basketball fans can get in on is this one. It's got lots of stomping and clapping involved. Try it!

(X,X, S, X, X, S, X, X, S, X) Shoot!

(X,X, S, X, X, S, X, X, S, X) For!

(X,X, S, X, X, S, X, X, S, X) Two!

Come on (team name)!

SHOOT FOR TWO!

And a fun basketball cheer to intimidate the competition is this one:

Have a seat (X)

We've got you beat (X)

We know you just can't take the heat (X)

Goooooo (team name!)

Step 5:

Look online for other great basketball cheers. If you still need more basketball cheers, the internet is a great source for countless creative chants and songs. Get out your pompoms and visit any of the following websites for some more great basketball cheers:

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