Crossword clues for backbend
The Collaborative International Dictionary
backbend \back"bend\ (b[a^]k"b[e^]nd), n. 1. an acrobatic feat in which the trunk is bent backward from a standing position until the hands touch the floor.
Wiktionary
n. (context gymnastics dance English) A move in which the performer bends backwards until the hands touch the floor or catches him/herself with the hands
WordNet
n. an acrobatic feat in which the trunk is bent backward from a standing position until the hands touch the floor
Wikipedia
A backbend is a gymnastics, contortion, or dance move, where the spine is bent backwards, and catching oneself with the hands. Throughout the move, the abdominal muscles, obliques, and legs are used to steady the performer while curving backwards. Backbending can be acquired from intense training or genetics.
Usage examples of "backbend".
At one street corner, an ebony-skinned acrobat performed a graceful backbend, muscles rippling.
Just as they thought she was going to do a backbend, she simply rolled her torso backward and then up again.
The howling wind, even hours before actual landfall, bowed the towering queen palms like ballerinas in a backbend, their fronds extended straight.
The slug slammed a third of the top of her skull away, snapped her neck, catapulted her back into the dressing table, smashing the mirror, soiling the wall, leaving her in a limp, grotesque, motionless backbend across the dressing table bench.
Jasmine doing a backbend, both palms on the floor, one leg straight in the air.
She stood up and did almost a complete backbend, cracking her back and stretching muscles in the process.
They seemed to share my longing for my mother who already embodied for me the beauty of youth, who had the shiny-haired, smooth-cheeked vitality my grandparents did not have, who could do backbends and cartwheels and who owned high heeled shoes in fifteen colors who became ever more precious for her elusiveness.
He did that several times, the board giving him extra altitude and a longer parabola in which to do his fantastic capers and head-to-toe backbends and legs-apart splits in midair.
Then she scurried to the top again, stood on her hands again and did a series of upside-down contortions, backbends, center splits, when she spread her legs horizontally from side to side, and stride splits, when she spread them fore and aft.
The teachers also made us do a lot of quick backbends to the floor, ten or twenty at a time, non-stop.
Their frenzied, shouting, screeching fling-about of high kicks, backbends, struttings, sudden splits—danced to Maître Offenbach's rowdy cancan from Orphée aux Enfers—could hardly have been more rousingly erotic if they had danced stark naked.
He started with some warming-up exercises, then quickly went on to handstands and backbends, all of this culminating in a gigantic backspring followed by a complete rotation in midair, Before the acrobat's feet had touched down again, Jan had slipped the modified key into the hole in the lock and just as quickly withdrawn it.
Dressed, or at least covered, she pulled off the sweatshirt and knotted it around her waist, then began her usual morning warmup: a series of kicks, stretches, and backbends, all the while trying to get her mind to settle as well.