Crossword clues for backswing
Wiktionary
n. (context sports English) The preparatory stroke preceding that which produces contact with the target. Normally associated with sports using an implement such as a bat, club, racket or stick.
Wikipedia
Backswing may refer to:
- Backswing in a club sport, such as the backswing in a golfing stroke
- Backswing in a bat and ball sport, such as batting (baseball) or batting (cricket)
- Backswing in a racket sport, such as badminton, racquetball, squash, or tennis
- Backswing in a stick sport, such as field hockey or ice hockey
Usage examples of "backswing".
It was difficult to get much of a backswing on the poker so close to the door, but she did her best.
She could make out only the vague outline of a medium-sized frame with a head sleek as a seal, but that was enough to see that already the shoulders were tensing to lift the bat in a second backswing, aimed straight at her head.
He made an extra backswing for momentum, then drove his trapeze forward again, upward and upward to an almost unbelievable height.
On the backswing, so swiftly that Tommy could hardly follow the separate movements, he threaded his ankles through his looped hands and swung there, his body arched into an inverted hoop.
Liss went off the board, swinging neatly, taking the trapeze on the backswing beneath her bent knees, stretching her wrists to Barbara.
Grasp the bar, out in the long swooping dive, tension in shoulder muscles as he swung up and over the bar, backswing, playing with it, diving, the long tumbling sense of free flight.
The long breathless backswing, the excitement of fingers closing on the bar again when he was braced for the long drop and fall .
As the catch bar reached its furthest point of backswing, he caught his breath, thrusting his hands out at the ready for the rush forward.
And then the looming, spinning body snapped out and straightened, and wrist slipped, locked on wrist, slid slightly and locked again as the backswing of the catch trap absorbed some of the momentum.
He grunted as he began a backswing with the axe calculated to split the Colonel up from the groin to the breastbone, then gasped as a pain exploded behind his knee.
Then, on his third backswing, he extended his legs on either side and jerked himself forward over the bar, feeling like a missile shot from a catapult.
He slashed open the one on his left and caught the other with his backswing, and the two began to crumple to the ground together.
The swordplay was so swift and continuous, attempting to slash with both downswing and backswing, so that it looked more like fencing than sword fighting.
However, the frenzied fighting of his horse to be free and away prevented the creature from a true strike and a backswing of sword sent it spinning to smash against one of the poles from which dropped an empty web.
He knew the mighty ax-swing that must be arrested by the arm that guided it, knew the almost inevitable looping backswing, lower, curving upward, during which the outsized man covered himself with heavy buckler.