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Eponymous rink jump
Answer for the clue "Eponymous rink jump ", 7 letters:
salchow
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Word definitions for salchow in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Salchow may refer to: Ulrich Salchow (1877–1949), Swedish figure skater Salchow jump , a figure skating jump named after him
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 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.
Usage examples of salchow.
He admitted once having met Salchow, who had improved on the star figure invented by Englemann, the star of four crosses, forward rocker, back loop, back counter.
He did a beautiful sitting pirouette, came out of it with lunging strokes and did a double Salchow that was a very tough thing to do.
Later, I resumed my Russian studies with a young tutor from Novosibirsk, who, upon hearing me attempt a participial phrase with a reflexive, heavily prefixed verb of motion in the anchor position-a maneuver that I considered the triple salchow of my conversational repertoire-winced, as if stabbed, rolled her eyes into the back of her skull, and, upon recovery, seemed eager to return to the communal apartment she had shared in central Siberia.
He acted as if he was on skates and whizzing across the ice, all set to do a difficult piece of figure work, one of his Salchows or something like that.