Crossword clues for handspring
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Handspring \Hand"spring`\ (-spr[i^]ng), n. A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
Wiktionary
alt. A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground. n. A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
WordNet
n. an acrobatic feat in which a person goes from a standing position to a handstand and back again
Wikipedia
A handspring is an acrobatic move in which a person executes a complete revolution of the body by lunging headfirst from an upright position into a vertical position and then pushing off (i.e., "springing") from the floor with the hands so as to leap back to an upright position. Handsprings are performed in various physical activities, including acro dance, cheerleading and gymnastics. In artistic gymnastics, handsprings are commonly performed in the floor exercise, vault, and balance beam events.
The direction of body rotation in a handspring may be either forward or backward, resulting in a front handspring or back handspring, respectively. In a back handspring—which is also known by various other names, including flip-flop and flic-flac—the performer does not see where the hands will land until after the move has begun.
Body movement may be terminated upon completion of a handspring, or the performer's momentum may be leveraged so as to immediately perform another handspring or other rotational move (e.g., a flip such as a tuck or layout). Similarly, another rotational move (e.g., a roundoff) may precede a handspring in order to develop sufficient momentum for the handspring.
A "standing" handspring is one that begins from a stationary standing position. For example, a back handspring that begins with the performer in a stationary standing position is known as a standing back handspring.
Handspring may refer to:
- Handspring (company), a company that made personal digital assistants
- Handspring (gymnastics), a gymnastics move involving forward or backward rotation of the body
- Rising handspring or nip-up, an acrobatic transition from supine to squatting position
Handspring was a maker of Palm OS-based Visor- and Treo-branded personal digital assistants. It was run by Jeff Hawkins, Donna Dubinsky, and Ed Colligan, the original inventors of the Palm Pilot and founders of Palm Computing, after they became unhappy with the direction in which 3Com was taking the Palm division. Handspring was founded in June 1998 and merged with Palm, Inc.'s hardware division in 2003 to form palmOne. The Treo 600 was the last product to use the Handspring name.
Usage examples of "handspring".
In addition to the Chanel she was wearing a white silk dress and that quizzical, half-amused smile that made most of the other officers turn mental cartwheels and handsprings but served only to irritate me.
Between handsprings and whirligigs he delivered his message that would save the world.
Bowing deeply, he gave a mocking salute to the despoiled tourist and melted into the ensemble of dancers as the next soloist leaped into a series of handsprings and the caravan with its eerie, wailing Fiata moved onward toward the Baguette.
The man had done everything but handsprings trying to convince Torch to stay on.
He performed some preliminary chest beating and handsprings, largely to get attention.
When the lightning cracked I jumped higher and when the thunder clapped I roared like a lion and then I did a handspring and then I rolled in the grass like a cub and I chewed the grass and spit it out for them and I pounded my chest like a gorilla and all the time I could see the Czerny exercises resting on the piano, the white page full of sharps and flats, and the fucking idiot, think I to myself, imagining that that's the way to learn how to manipulate the well-tempered clavichord.
It was of Dorothy that Ozma was thinking, as she watched Scraps turning reckless handsprings under the tulip trees.