Is recurring check ethical?

If you are getting slaughtered and find a way to draw via recurring check is it ethical?

I personally think it's fair because it takes a bit of strategy to acheive it and people should make sure it can't happen if they are winning.

Or is it only a thing you should do in a tournament and on chess.com there should be an element of ethical fair play?

There's absolutely nothing unethical about it whatsoever. There's no reason it should be considered unethical. This is well established within chess circles.

Sure it's ethical, lol. Many games are saved and lost this way.

<joke>It is totally unethical, just like taking the opponent's queen after you have not warned them by saying "Gardez!"</joke>

[Hoping the tags will prevent me being accused of being serious]

Yeah that's exactly what I was thinking, if you see a weakness you're harldy going to disregard it because your opponent has played much better than you up till that point.  Out of over 200 games I've forced stalemate 3 times and I admit 2 times were flukes but only one opponent thought it was cool and fair play, the other two thought I was well dodgy lol.  So that's why I was asking because I thought maybe on forums like this it's frowned upon.  Thanks for clarifying it for me.

I must admit though I did feel guilty a couple of times because they were flukes and it's quite bad when you've been thoroughly outplayed

Nothing undeserved happens in a game of chess, Spangledstar. If your opponent played brilliantly for 99 moves and then blundered to give you a draw on move 100, his last move made the result entirely just.