tirarse a la piscina

Spanish

Verb

tirarse a la piscina (first-person singular present me tiro a la piscina, first-person singular preterite me tiré a la piscina, past participle tirado a la piscina)

1. (sports, soccer, idiomatic) to dive (to deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised)

Derived terms

• piscinazo m
• piscinero m, piscinera f

Further reading

• “lanzarse, o tirarse, a la piscina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10