Definition of Handstands

1. Noun. (plural of handstand) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Handstands

1. handstand [n] - See also: handstand

Lexicographical Neighbors of Handstands

handsomes
handsomest
handsoming
handspan
handspans
handspike
handspikes
handspring
handsprings
handspun
handstamp
handstamped
handstamping
handstamps
handstand
handstands
handstitched
handstroke
handstrokes
handsy
handwarmer
handwash
handwashing
handwave
handwaved
handwaves
handwavey
handwaving
handwavium
handwavy

Literary usage of Handstands

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1904)
"Wash handstands were used, and were sometimes placed in the bedrooms. Baths seem only to have been taken in cases of sickness, or occasionally after a long ..."

2. Revitalize Your Life: Improve Your Looks, Your Health & Your Sex Lifeby Jack Lalanne by Jack Lalanne (2003)
"As I was going through the line I did handstands, push-ups, and many of my hand-balancing tricks. As luck would have it, I wasn't asked to do a full squat ..."

3. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1858)
"Open doors, one, two, and three, and see the neat berths with their English crockery in wash-handstands, whilst the fourth admits you to a compartment where ..."

4. Doctrine and Doctrinal Disruption: Being an Examination of the Intellectual by William Hurrell Mallock (1900)
"The promoter tinkles a handstands- i * ir bell, and immediately, through a side-door, the traveller himself enters, bows to the surprised Committee, ..."

5. The Gold Chain: A California Family Sagaby Regina V. Phelan by Regina V. Phelan (1987)
"Following the overture, the clowns entered the arena, executing somersaults, cartwheels, handstands, talu flips, somersaults from a standing position, ..."

6. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1836)
"Tables of al I kinds, sideboards, wash-handstands, and other articles of a similar nature, and which do not refaire to be often moved (a» state is, ..."

7. Amateur Circus Life by Ernest Berkeley Balch, Ernest Berkeley Blach (1916)
"Pyramids may come in at any time, the front handsprings after handstands and diving. Back handsprings I leave to the last. The roll is the most important. ..."

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