Nuclear pairing gaps of normally deformed and superdeformed nuclei are investigated using the particlenumber-conserving (PNC) formalism for the cranked shell model, in which the blocking effects are treated exactly. Both rotational frequency ω dependence and seniority (number of unpaired particles) ν dependence of the pairing gap˜ are investigated. For the ground-state bands of even-even nuclei, PNC calculations show that, in general,˜ decreases with increasing ω, but the ω dependence is much weaker than that calculated by the number-projected Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov approach. For the multiquasiparticle bands (seniority ν > 2), the pairing gaps stay almost ω independent. As a function of the seniority ν, the bandhead pairing gaps˜ (ν, ω = 0) decrease slowly with increasing ν. Even for the highest seniority ν bands identified so far,˜ (ν, ω = 0) remains greater than 70% of˜ (ν = 0, ω = 0).