Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an acrobatic feat in which the trunk is bent backward from a standing position until the hands touch the floor.
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- noun gymnastics, dance A move in which the performer bends backwards until the hands touch the floor
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an acrobatic feat in which the trunk is bent backward from a standing position until the hands touch the floor
Etymologies
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Examples
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There's one young lady on the pedestal and everybody else is balancing in some kind of backbend on her.
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There's one young lady on the pedestal and everybody else is balancing in some kind of backbend on her.
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But of course it's hard for me to ignore my Bowie pictures, or the Debbie Harry, or the Iggy backbend shot - that's an image that's haunted me for many years.
Taryn Haight: Interview With Mick Rock and Photos From "Rocked" at the W Downtown, NYC Taryn Haight 2011
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As you extend your leg higher, Your body opens in the backbend and your chest may go toward the floor as part of the opening.
Alanna Zabel: Let The Royal Wedding Remind You Of Your Own Royal Path Alanna Zabel 2011
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But of course it's hard for me to ignore my Bowie pictures, or the Debbie Harry, or the Iggy backbend shot - that's an image that's haunted me for many years.
Taryn Haight: Interview With Mick Rock and Photos From "Rocked" at the W Downtown, NYC Taryn Haight 2011
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Quarterre Shadow by Quarterre The Shadow bike stand looks like an abstract steel interpretation of a yoga backbend pose, but it's as much a utilitarian object as it is sculpture.
On the Right Rack Kimberly Chou 2011
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There's one young lady on the pedestal and everybody else is balancing in some kind of backbend on her.
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As you extend your leg higher, Your body opens in the backbend and your chest may go toward the floor as part of the opening.
Alanna Zabel: Let The Royal Wedding Remind You Of Your Own Royal Path Alanna Zabel 2011
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"I've got wood!" he'll cry when this panting sexagenarian actually manages to get something right, such as whirling on a centimeter into a genital-grinding clutch with a breast-bouncing backbend to follow.
Pamela Stephenson Connolly: my Strictly debut Pamela Stephenson Connolly 2010
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As I lay upside down in a backbend, the ice became the sky, my trapped version of heaven.
Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011
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