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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
headstand
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ One night Helen Duhon and Katherine decided to see who could hold a headstand the longest.
▪ So I tried a headstand during rehearsal.
Wiktionary
headstand

n. 1 The act of standing on one's head. 2 The position of standing on one's head.

WordNet
headstand

n. an acrobatic feat in which a person balances on the head (usually with the help of the hands)

Usage examples of "headstand".

It occurred to me that the decision was probably preordained, and I came out of my headstand into a crouch.

I hit the control to process, from headstand to bel-lywhopper backwards-easiest for descent, although supine backwards will work just as well.

I clutched the processing control, told the skycar to swing one-eighty degrees, passing through headstand again.

I hit the control to process, from headstand to bellywhopper backwards—easiest for descent, although supine backwards will work just as well.

Now he floated facedown in an effortless headstand a few inches above the rock.

They stood erect on their racing horses, did headstands on the animals, crawled under them, swung off and hit the ground with their feet, and bounced over the beasts and hit the ground on the other side.

While he demonstrates his lowered fist, showing the surfaces used in the forehand shot and the snap shot, the Sunday morning sun does a headstand on his hairless dome: how it glitters.