1. A cheerleader who can do any stunt
   The person lifted up in the air for stunts or a pyramid
2. The cheerleading captain
   A cheerleader who lifts someone in the air

If you're watching cheerleading competitions, or just watching cheer routines at a game, the flyer (or floater) is the person you have your eye on. And flying and floating is what these folks do when lifted or thrown in the air.

1. The landing
   The lift
2. The prep/approach
   The drop/roll

A jump sequence typically has to have both feet off the ground. And a jump has three parts, in this order: the prep/approach, the lift, and the landing.

1. Your fan base
   Home base--your family and friends
2. The person/people who lift up a flyer
   The coach

The base holds flyers up in the air, and they (safely!) bring floaters and flyers down. The base also consists of the people on the bottom of a pyramid.

1. A stunt
   An arm motion
2. A flip
   A routine

The sponge is one of the easier stunts. A flyer is in a sitting position, is pushed up, and then dropped back down by the bases.

1. Your hair
   Your teammates
2. Other competitors
   Your friends or siblings in the audience

In cheerleading competitions, having your hair teased and held up by hairspray in a big, beautiful ponytail is pretty normal. You just need to top it off with a big, beautiful bow.

1. Spankies
   Panties
2. Tights
   Lollipops

Briefs are the matching bloomers that coordinate with your cheerleading skirt. Spankies, tights and lollipops are all other names for briefs--and you definitely don't call them panties.

1. Stop crying, get over it.
   The coach is coming, so get in formation.
2. Hold your breath as you wait for the judges' scores
   Hold it and don't fall.

This message is to the base! When a flyer is doing a stunt, you need to brace yourselves! It's important so that the flyer can do their thing up there--and safely.

1. Getting in the stands and shaking pom-pons in people's faces
   Shaking your booty
2. Pummel people with t-shirts with a t-shirt gun
   Get the crowd excited into your cheer, routine or dance

"Attack the crowd" is not something you should do literally, of course. It's just a way to get people enthusiastic and involved about the cheering you're doing.

1. Double hook
   Beginning tuck
2. Pike
   Hurdler

The double hook jump has your arms in a high V, with your front leg and back leg hooked to the same side. The double hook is known as a cheer sit because it's a position a cheerleader learns to use while sitting on the ground or the floor during a game.

1. Hurdler
   Pike
2. Tuck
   Herkie

The herkie is named after the founder of the National Cheerleaders Association, Lawrence Herkimer. With this jump, one leg is stretched out straight and the other leg is hooked to the side.

1. Aerial
   Buckets
2. Arabesque
   Awesome

With the arabesque, many times a flyer is performing this stunt while being held up by the base. It's like your legs for a 90 degree angle--or a little bigger than that.

1. Banana
   Candlesticks
2. Cradle catch
   Deadman

The banana stunt usually happens in one of two ways. You're doing a combo jump or you're getting up to a basket toss.

1. Candlesticks
   Buckets
2. Cradle catch
   Cupie

Buckets is a basic cheerleader move, and it gets its name because it looks like you're holding a bucket. This isn't to be confused with actual cheerleader buckets, which are usually fun buckets with bright and colorful decorations.

1. Hurdler
   Sell It
2. Scorpion
   Handstand

The Scorpion is an advanced stunt for a cheerleader. It requires strength and flexibility--especially to do the leg extension behind the head.

1. Peel off
   Spankies
2. High V
   Tick-tock

This move involves the flyer's base because they will be holding the straightened leg. They provide the stability for you to do this move.

1. Squeeze your eyes shut!
   Tighten your body.
2. Squeeze your hands.
   Smile!

As a flyer, when you tighten your muscles, you become lighter for your bases. Flyers should remain tense and tight while up in the air.

1. Liberty
   Sponge
2. Show-n-go
   Leapin' Lora

The Liberty stunt is a more advanced move for a cheerleader since it involves a lot of poise and strength to stand on one leg while the other is bent.. It was called Liberty because originally, the flyer would punch an arm in the air, holding it like the Statue of Liberty would.

1. Big, wide smile
   Wink
2. Head bob
   An eye tick

Facials in cheerleading are not about spa treatments, but are moves that show personality--from your face. It's a way to engage the crowd and judges and amp up the enthusiasm. Another kind of facial would be sticking out your tongue.

1. Falling
   Jumping
2. Laying on the ground
   Sleeping

The Deadman has a flyer falling forward or backward out of a stunt. The base should have a few people for this maneuver. The Deadman could also be a move to push the flyer back upright into another stunt.

1. Awesome
   Kewpie
2. Cupie
   Cradle catch

So, what's the difference between the Cupie or the Awesome? A Cupie has the base's free hand on the hip while the awesome has the base's free hand up in a High V. This is a "one man" type of stunt, where one person alone acts as the base for a flyer.

1. Daggers
   Bow and Arrow
2. Candlesticks
   Attack the Crowd

Like many cheerleading terms, the Bow and Arrow is named that because the cheerleader takes on that shape. With the Bow and Arrow, the flyer stands on one leg and takes their opposite leg with the opposite arm and pulls it around their body, with the other arm usually pushed straight out (like an arrow).

1. A full routine
   A cartwheel
2. A full-twisting layout
   A back tuck

The full-twisting layout is a gymnastics move, but you see it in cheerleading a lot. Whether it's a full-twisting layout or a double-twisting layout, you'll probably need to know other moves, like layouts, back handsprings and roundoffs first.

1. Handspring
   Facial
2. Aerial
   Pike

The Pike is a move that even beginner cheerleaders can perform. It gets more advanced and expert when the knees are locked straight, arms are out front and straight, pointed toward your toes.

1. Table Top
   Abstract
2. Touchdown
   Double hook

The Table Top is a pyramid stunt with three levels. The top flyer stands on top of at least two other cheerleaders.

1. Walking backwards in a routine
   Start the routine for the top
2. A reverse stunt
   Fall backward

A rewind can look like someone hit the rewind button on a stunt. Many times, a flyer is doing some sort of reverse flip or stunt into another stunt. For example, a flyer could do a rewind into some kind of mount.

1. Walking on your hands
   Bribing the judges
2. Exaggerated facials or attitude
   Selling concessions at the game during halftime

OK, for the record--no bribing judges is ever necessary. If you need to sell it, it just means to punch up the sass and attitude in your routine. It helps engaging judges and the audience.

1. M motion
   T motion
2. L motion
   K motion

The motions typically have to do with one's arms. And the motions can create letters with the body--and there isn't one that creates the letter "M" with one's arms.

1. Arabesque
   Scale
2. Torch
   Needle

The scale is an advanced stunt that requires flexibility and balance. The needle is similar to the scale, but you'd hold the extended leg with both hands behind you so your legs look straight as a needle.

1. Cradle
   Manger
2. Bed
   Cot

This is a basic dismount position. The base members put one arm under the flyer's thighs and the other arm under her back. The flyer should be in a pike position in the cradle.

1. Dirty bird
   Cupie
2. Braced flip
   Helicopter toss

The dirty consists of three moves. First, a flyer is tossed into a laid out x-position (arms and legs stretched out to make the body look like an X). The flyer then lands on the base's back with their arms. Then the flyer passes the base's legs--typically to move into a transition skill like the scooper, where they will be pulled up to do something else.

1. A stretched-out body position
   Reloading a stunt
2. A mount with a twist
   A release where a flyer has a full rotation parallel to the ground

The log roll, also known as the barrel roll, should have at least three bases and a flyer. The bases actually help the flyer to twist in the air when they toss.

1. Hit your teammates
   Hit your jump
2. Start banging on the floor rhythmically
   Tap your foot in time

Hit is a good word of encouragement here. Whoever is yelling at you wants you to hit your jumps on time and be in sync with your other teammates and the music.

1. The teammate with the worst attitude
   The happiest person on the squad
2. What the coach uses to keep cheerleaders in line
   A type of flip

This type of movement can be pretty fast. It's a quick feet-over-head motion without one's hands touching the ground, landing on one's feet. In succession, it can look like you're whipping your body around an imaginary horizontal axis.

1. Straight out to the sides
   Facing forward
2. Facing backward
   Diagonally

Although this is a basic cheerleading move, to jump high enough and get the correct for takes time to learn. The legs should be in what's called a straddle split.

1. No-hands
   Hitch
2. Chin Chin
   Cry Baby

Whether you call it no-hands, chin chin or cry baby, this stunt has the foot resting under the flyer's chin when arms are in a High V. The flyer can transition in and out of similar stunts with this one, such as the Liberty or the Scorpion.