Crossword clues for topspin
topspin
- Arthur Ashe specialty
- Tennis lob strategy
- Tennis hitting technique
- Table-tennis technique
- Some English, at Wimbledon
- Some "English," in billiards
- Rotation on a fastball
- Result of an upward stroke
- King's English?
- Feature of some returns
- English, at Wimbledon
- English on a tennis ball
- Ball's bearing?
- Ace feature, maybe
- A winner might have it
- Ball bearing?
- Tennis technique
- Arc producer
- Cause of a curved flight path
- Court technique
- Forward spin (usually of a moving ball) that is imparted by an upward stroke
- English of a sort
- No more leg on display at Wimbledon?
- Feature of bowler’s delivery: position taken up on leg
- After excellent glass of beer, finish off a shot?
- Beats leg side with a 90-degree turn?
- Tennis tactic
- Lob motion
- English in tennis
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A rotational motion, especially that given to a ball, in which the upper surface spins in the direction of motion. vb. (context transitive English) To spin (a ball) with this motion.
WordNet
n. forward spin (usually of a moving ball) that is imparted by an upward stroke
Wikipedia
In ball sports, topspin is a property of a ball that rotates forwards as it is moving. Topspin on a ball propelled through the air imparts a downward force that causes the ball to drop, due to its interaction with the air (see Magnus effect). Topspin is the opposite of backspin.
Topspin is the name of several fictional characters from the Transformers universes. Due to legal issues, later incarnations of the character are called Autobot Topspin.
In sports, topspin is a property of a shot where the ball rotates as if rolling in the same direction as it is moving.
Topspin or Top Spin may also refer to:
- Top Spin (film), a 2014 documentary on Olympic athletes
- Top Spin (ride), a thrill ride developed by HUSS Maschinenfabrik
- Top Spin (video game), a 2003 tennis video game
- Topspin (Transformers), an autobot in the Transformers universe
- Topspin (comics), a Marvel Comics mutant
- Topspin Media, a marketing and e-commerce software platform for artists
Usage examples of "topspin".
Drops, drops for angles, topspin lobs, extreme angles, drops for extreme angles, then restful microtennis, tennis inside the service lines, very soft and precise, radical angles much encouraged.
Lots of different dialects were spoken, although almost everyone spoke the lingua franca, which was basically trade-slang with a lot of Terranglish cognates and loanwords and a little neighborhood topspin.
It sputters away to one side, crippled by a perverse topspin that makes it fall from flight as dumpily as a blob of clay.
It was as though she were making a sharp backhand return to a half volley with a quick roll of the wrist at the end of the shot to impart topspin.
Fielding, tanned, tuned, a king's ransom of orthodonture having passed through his mouth, reared on steaks and on milk sweetened with iron and zinc, twenty-five, leaning into his strokes and imparting topspin with a roll of the wrist.
Daddy Big, trying futilely to memorize anew the fading memories of how he used to apply topspin and reverse English to the cue ball, recognized Franny Phelan, even though he had not seen him in twenty years.