Crossword clues for footwork
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. Any movement of the feet, especially intricate or complex movement.
WordNet
n. the manner of using the feet
skillful maneuvering or dealing; "she needs some fancy footwork to cover all those lies"
Wikipedia
Footwork may refer to one of the following.
- Footwork (dance)
- Footwork (martial arts)
- Footwork (Chicago), a type of Chicago street dance and related Juke house music style
- Footwork (racing team), an International Formula 3000 team
- Footwork Arrows, the identity of the Arrows Formula One team while it was owned by Footwork International Corp.
Footwork refers to dance technique aspects related to feet: foot position and foot action.
The following aspects of footwork may be considered:
- Dance technique: a proper footwork may be vital for proper posture and movement of a dancer.
- Aesthetic value: some foot positions and actions are traditionally considered appealing, while other ones are ugly, although this depends on the culture.
- Artistic expression: a sophisticated footwork may in itself be the goal of the dance expression.
Different dances place different emphasis on the above aspects.
Footwork is a martial arts and combat sports term for the general usage of the legs and feet in stand-up fighting. Footwork involves keeping balance, closing or furthering the distance, controlling spatial positioning, and/or creating additional momentum for strikes.
Footwork is a genre of related music and street dance that originated in Chicago during the 1980s.
The dance involves fast movement of the feet with accompanying twists and turns, and usually takes place as part of a " battle". The music style has evolved from an earlier musical style, juke, a change pioneered by R.P. Boo. The style was popularised outside Chicago by inclusion in the music video for Dude 'n Nem's 2007 single "Watch My Feet". Nowadays the terms footwork music and juke music are used interchangeably on various music sites, usually by tagging footwork music "juke".
Usage examples of "footwork".
She was quite agile in low-g footwork and she left Bigfoot far behind.
The helicopters had to do some fancy footwork to avoid the erratic maneuvers of the pilotless Bronco as it pulled into a series of chandelles and lazy-eights over the battlefield.
Similarly, in the context of bosonic string theory, physicists tried all sorts of fancy footwork to make sense of the bizarre prediction of a tachyon vibrational pattern, but to no avail.
He took Hatty out onto the Arizona practice field, fed him grounders, and tried to teach him footwork.
Having dealt with Willa Dount, I doubt the footwork will do any good, but I want to try.
Dudley Smith walked into the dining alcove and tapped the filing boxes and typewriters with his spit-shined brogues--uncharacteristically idle footwork.
By the second half of the 1980s, cosmic structures were being discovered and mapped that could never have come into being since the time of the Big Bang, whatever the inhomogeneities at the beginning or fast footwork in the first few moments to smooth out the background picture.
I did not trust all of this fancy footwork on his/her part, and Kwannon lost something of her enchantment for me with this smattering of history and anthropology.
The Reverend St john's having to make with some fancy footwork to keep his balance up there on the moral high ground, so he coughed us up a list pretty quick.
Even Skinny resorted to fancy footwork and I had three narrow squeaks.
For club regulars, windblown hair was an exotic diversion from leaden footwork and half-hearted pelvic thrusts.
With nimble footwork he kept the trunk between Anna and himself, until at last she stopped, gasping and redfaced, and panted at him, Come out, you yellow-bellied black-faced apology for a blue-testicled baboon!