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to backflip

to backflip

1 3.3
To jump and turn backward in the air and land on your feet
  • verb
  • /ˈbækˌflɪp/
translation icon : hacer un salto mortal hacia atrás
  • I don't know if she was supposed to do a gainer, but she went to the edge and just did a backflip on the board.

Examples

  • After practicing for weeks, she was finally ready to backflip off the diving board.

  • Should she do her first backflip on camera right now?

  • And then this guy tried to do a backflip, obviously had never done a black, a backflip in his life, in his life.

  • - Run up the wall and backflip off.

    Beat the World (2011)

  • I'm going to do one last goodbye backflip and then we're done.

  • You're doing a small jump before you backflip, OK?

  • He was so excited about the performance that he decided to backflip into the pool.

  • During the gymnastics competition, she executed a perfect backflip that impressed all the judges.

Synonyms

to somersault
vsto backflip
5 2.9

To turn head over heels in the air

rotates backward in the air and finishes by landing on the feet

How Difficult

to backflip
1 3.3
flip
21 3.7
to jump
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

backflip infinitive
backflipped past
backflipped past participle
backflipping present participle
backflips third person singular

Morphology

backflip = flip (transparent) = back + flip

The meaning is a direct combination of moving backward and flipping over, which is easy to infer from the parts. [Postprocessing: moved 'back' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Backflip as a verb comes from the same parts, back and flip, so it means 'to flip backwards'. So to backflip is to jump, turn over backward in the air, and land on your feet.