Crossword clues for handstand
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
handstand \handstand\ n. The gymnastic act of supporting oneself by one's hands alone in an upside down position; as, to do handstands for exercise.
Wiktionary
n. A movement or position in which a person is upside down, supported by their arms with their hands on the ground.
WordNet
n. the act of supporting yourself by your hands alone in an upside down position
Wikipedia
__NOTOC__ A handstand is the act of supporting the body in a stable, inverted vertical position by balancing on the hands. In a basic handstand the body is held straight with arms and legs fully extended, with hands spaced approximately shoulder-width apart. There are many variations of handstands, but in all cases a handstand performer must possess adequate balance and upper body strength.
Handstands are performed in many athletic activities, including acro dance, cheerleading, circus, yoga, and gymnastics. Some variation of handstand is performed on every gymnastic apparatus, and many tumbling skills pass through a handstand position during their execution. Breakdancers incorporate handstands in freezes and kicks. Armstand dives—a category found in competitive platform diving—are dives that begin with a handstand. In games or contests, swimmers perform underwater handstands with their legs and feet extended above the water.
Handstands are known by various other names. In yoga, the handstand is known as Adho Mukha Vrksasana translating to Downward-facing Tree Pose. In capoeira it is named bananeira.
Usage examples of "handstand".
They filled in the other boxes with trampoline flips, pushups, twenty-kilometer run, hundred-meter dash, precision back-flips, running broad jump, and handstand race.
After doing a near perfect handstand, she fell back upon her hips in the direction from which she had started.
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acrobat's feet had touched down again, Jan had slipped the modified key into the hole in the lock and just as quickly withdrawn it.
Either the audience thought there were more or were waiting for me to do handstands or backflips or something.
The only pity is that Bitzer Five can't do his handstand piss against the corner post, which is reasonable enough, but normally the highlight of the show.
Suddenly he understood why Stilgar had warned him once about brash young men who danced and played with these monsters, doing handstands on their backs, removing both hooks and replanting them before the worm could spill them.
Eric watched in disbelief as one boy moonwalked backwards, flipped over into a handstand, then rolled to the concrete in a tight backspin.
And while he'd learned as a boy to stand on his hands, and even walk on them, the mercs kipped up and planched into handstands on horizontal and parallel bars.
He stopped, stripped off his shirt, and crouching, planched into a handstand, then walked on his hands for her on the uneven ground, ending with a dozen handstand pushups.
Even without practice, Ali Baba did a commendable job of imitating Daphne's poses and handstands and upside-down splits.
You will organise and execute a rescue of your agent Aubrey, who will be spirited to Moscow by Aeroflot and then subsequently appear at some kind of staged interview with selected members of the Soviet and Western press - my God, man, you have the drugs to make him do handstands and sing soprano for the cameras if you care to use them!