frontbend
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]frontbend (plural frontbends)
- (gymnastics, dance) Any pose with an unusual degree of backward bending at the waist and/or any portion of spine while standing, kneeling, resting on the floor, or while suspended.
- 1965, Gymnastics Guide (Sports library for girls and women), Division for Girls and Women's Sports, American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation., page 92:
- Finish in kneel on right, left leg pointed front; sit back on right heel, frontbend—arms downward to low rear.
Verb
[edit]frontbend (third-person singular simple present frontbends, present participle frontbending, simple past and past participle frontbended)
- To perfrom a frontbend.
- 2013, Gruesome Facts: Factopedia, Igloo Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 222:
- They had extraordinary frontbending and backbending skills and could tuck their feet under their chins and waggle them – in triplicate!
- 2016, Louis Patrick Leroux, Charles R. Batson, Cirque Global: Quebec's Expanding Circus Boundaries, McGill-Queen's Press, →ISBN, page 297:
- The practice of contortion can be divided into three categories: backbending, frontbending and dislocation.