Crossword clues for gainer
gainer
- Dive with a back somersault
- One with a successful day on Wall Street
- It may be done off the board
- It's a dive
- A dive in which the diver throws the feet forward to complete a full backward somersault and enters the water feet first and facing away from the diving board
- Type of dive
- Louganis feat
- Certain dive
- Somersaulting dive
- Kind of dive
- Fancy dive
- Acrobatic dive
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gainer \Gain"er\, n.
One who gains.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who gains or profits," 1530s, agent noun from gain (v.). As "one who (deliberately) gains weight" by 2000s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who gains a profit or advantage. 2 One who put on weight. 3 (context sports slang English) A diving (or gymnastics) maneuver (from a high-dive diving board or high diving platform) involving a simultaneous inversion and rotation.
WordNet
n. a person who gains weight [syn: weight gainer]
a person who gains (gains an advantage or gains profits); "she was clearly the gainer in that exchange"
a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward to complete a full backward somersault and enters the water feet first and facing away from the diving board [syn: full gainer]
Wikipedia
A gainer is the acrobatic trick of performing a backwards somersault while still moving forward. In diving, this is known as reverse rotation (as opposed to front, back, or inward). Many stunt performers and martial artists are capable of performing a similar skill on the ground, sometimes in combination with a midair inverted kick.
A half gainer involves the same motion, except the ending position is with the head downward. A half gainer can also be performed starting with walking on the hands and ending with the head upwards, although this is quite difficult.
In gymnastics, the maneuver is performed while standing on the side of a balance beam by kicking one foot forwards while flipping backwards.
A professional wrestling move called a shooting star press is very similar to a gainer, as it involves a wrestler performing a variation of a gainer from a standing position, onto an opponent (causing the wrestler to land chest first). This maneuver has many variations, ranging from different locations, different tuck styles/turns and also additional degrees of rotation, however the standard shooting star press is essentially a gainer.
A Gainer is a backward somersault in acrobatics, diving and some martial arts.
Gainer may also refer to:
Gainer is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
- Aaron Gainer, member of American Christian post-grunge band '12 Stones'
- Alice Gainer (born 1982), American television reporter
- Del Gainer (1886–1947), American baseball player
- Derrick Gainer (American football) (born 1966), American football player
- Derrick Gainer (born 1972), American boxer
- Sir Donald Gainer (1891–1966), British ambassador
- Elmer Gainer (1918–1970), American basketball player
- Forrest Gainer (born 1979), Canadian rugby player
- Frank Gainer (1888–1975), Canadian politician
- Glen Gainer, Jr. (1927–2009), American politician
- Glen Gainer III (born 1960), American politician
- Jay Gainer (born 1966), American baseball player
- John L. Gainer (born 1938), American chemical engineer
- Ronald William Gainer (born 1947), American Catholic priest, appointed Bishop of Harrisburg in 2014
- Steve Gainer, American cinematographer
- Terrance W. Gainer (born 1947), Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate 2007–14
Usage examples of "gainer".
Hitherto the lottery had always been a gainer, but its late loss could not have come at a worse time.
My fair neighbour, at the end of the game, which lasted four hours, found herself the gainer of a few sequins, but the officer, who had played on his word of honour, after losing all the money in his pockets, owed ten louis.
Even so late as the year 1777, in which the last treaty of boundaries was signed at San Ildefonso, Portugal was the gainer, though not so greatly as by the former treaties of 1681 and 1750.
Hitherto the lottery had always been a gainer, but its late loss could not have come at a worse time.
It may seem strange to say so, but it strikes one as quite conceivable that the world might have been a gainer if fate had kept Coleridge a little longer in the ranks than the four months of his actual service.
Dick should forthwith be punished by death, but Negoro whispered to them that they would assuredly be the gainers by delay, and they accordingly contented themselves with ordering the youth to be placed under strict supervision.
But on my telling her that I would give her double the sum she was to be paid for her witchcraft, and that thus she would be the gainer and not a loser in complying with my demands, she became calm once more.
I stood before her with an open knife, and would not suffer her to pass. But on my telling her that I would give her double the sum she was to be paid for her witchcraft, and that thus she would be the gainer and not a loser in complying with my demands, she became calm once more.
This was a mortifying declaration to the plaintiff, though he condoled himself with the hope of being a gainer by the loss of his eye, and now the pain was over would have been very sorry to find his sight retrieved.
In regular bounds the white haired girl vaulted and spun against the sky: back triple somersault, front triple somersault, half gainer, recovery, full gainer, recovery, jack-knife opening backwards in a reverse swan, triple back, then triple front again.
Then a straight candle through a quadruple back into a full gainer, closing with a double forward before she hit the elastic for the last time.
For all the world, it had to look like I was leaping into a full gainer over the driveway.
My mind did a leap and a half gainer and landed back where it started.
She stood up to wave at Pat and promptly executed a near-perfect half gainer off the cart, ending with a face-plant in the mud.
Somehow, Rick managed to throw himself into a half gainer, and landed almost feet first in the black waters of the canal.