English word senses marked with topical category "Figure skating"

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Total 21 word senses

• Biellmann (Noun) a spin on one skate while upright, with one leg in the air, and both hands gripping the figure skate above the figure skater's head
• Choctaw turn (Noun) A turn in figure skating that involves both a change of foot and a change of edge and lobe.
• Ina Bauer (Noun) A move where the skater skates with the blades parallel, toes pointing in opposite directions.
• axel (Noun) A jump that includes one (or more than one) complete turn and a half turn while in the air.
• cantilever (Noun) A technique, similar to the spread eagle, in which the skater travels along a deep edge with knees bent and bends their back backwards, parallel to the ice.
• chack (Verb) To not broadcast a medal-winning or otherwise memorable or crucial figure skating performance. This only occurs in a live broadcast because the network has to decide which programs to show and which to cut in the interest of time. If a skater is low in the rankings and several big names are set to skate later, that performance may be cut.
• death spiral (Noun) A manoeuvre in which a male skater spins in place while holding one hand of his female skating partner as she circles around him with one skate on the ice and one leg extended outward parallel to the ice surface, all the while slowly lowering herself until her back almost touches the ice surface.
• double jump (Noun) A jump that involves two or two-and-a-half rotations in the air.
• figure skate (Verb) To practice figure skating
• figure skater (Noun) Someone who figure skates
• figure skating (Noun) A sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates.
• kiss and cry (Noun) The publicly viewable enclosure in which figure skaters sit immediately after a performance, while they await and receive the judging results.
• layback (Noun) A spin in which the head and shoulders are dropped backwards and the back arched downwards toward the ice; also called a layback spin.
• lobe (Noun) A semicircular pattern left on the ice as the skater travels across it.
• loop jump (Noun) An edge jump taking off from a backward, outside edge, in which the skater rotates one to four times.
• lutz (Noun) A jump in which the skater takes off from the back outside edge of one skate, rotates counterclockwise and lands on the back outside edge of the other skate.
• mazurka (Noun) A figure skating move that combines elements of the toe loop and bunny-hop.
• mop up the ice (Verb) To fall many times during a performance.
• runner (Noun) A leaping food fish (Elagatis pinnulatis) of Florida and the West Indies; the skipjack, shoemaker, or yellowtail.
• salchow (Noun) A figure skating jump with a takeoff from a back inside edge and landing on the back outside edge of the opposite foot after one or more rotations in the air.
• spread eagle (Noun) A move in which a skater glides on both feet, the toes turned out to the sides, heels facing each other.

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