🏌️ A backward swing 🔄 A return movement

backswing

8 4.0

The backward movement of a club or racket before you swing

noun
/ˈbækswɪŋ/

: movimiento hacia atrás

Now, just a short backswing.
backswing putt

Examples

There's a starting position, the backswing, top of the backswing when the club briefly pauses, the downswing impact, and then the follow through.
How about just pull on the backswing and the follow through?
His serve came so fast she had no time for a backswing.

Fiction book (2001)
Players with bigger moves off the ball in the backswing release the club a little later.

Blog text (30)
Here goes the backswing and the ball is lofted high in the air.

The Bellboy (1960)
In golf, putting is a fine motor skill that requires two movements: a backswing and a forward swing.

Academic text (2006)
That's why a big backswing is a bad idea.

Fiction book (2001)
Nice backswing, man.

High School Musical 2 (2007)
Ed Silberstein tells him: "Work on shortening that backswing, Harry."

Fiction book (1990)
To improve your golf game, focus on achieving a smooth backswing before striking the ball.

How Far

to overswing

1 6.2

backswing

8 4.0

Surface Forms

backswing singular

backswings plural

Morphology

backswing = back + swing (transparent) = back + swing

Literal compound of 'back' (backward) + 'swing' (movement), directly describing the backward part of a swing.

Etymology

Backswing is made of back ('behind' or 'to the rear') and swing ('to move in a curve'), so a backswing is the backward movement you make before you swing or hit something in sports.