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Definition of Back circle
1. Noun. A feat in which an acrobat arches the back from a prone position and bends the knees until the toes touch the head.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Back Circle
Literary usage of Back circle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Club Swinging for Physical Exercise and Recreation: A Book of Information by William Jackson Schatz (1908)
"Left swings downward (outward movement), executes a lower back circle, and comes
to arm-over-back position, 3, 4, while right executes a front waist (inward ..."
2. Transactions of the Annual Meeting by Ohio State Medical Society (1895)
"On back — circle legs. 11. On back — stick in hands, patient resisting. 12.
On back — stick in hands, surgeon resisting. 13. Patient legs over end of table, ..."
3. Physical Education in the Public Schools: An Eclectic System of Exercises by R. Anna Morris (1892)
"The Lower back circle. Throw the club back of the body, hold the hand at the
waist line, while the club is turned in a circle by a wrist motion, ..."
4. A Manual of Scientific Enquiry: Prepared for the Use of Officers in Her by Robert Main, Great Britain Admiralty (1871)
"Turn the back circle through 80°, so that the deflector may be 40° on the other
side of the apparent dip. Move the needle by the bracket, s» that it may be ..."
5. Trials for High Treason, in Scotland: Under a Special Commission, Held at by Charles John Green (1825)
"Q. In the back circle, or some distance from them ? A. In the back circle. Q.
Then the crowd was so great, that although you were standing in the back ..."
6. Manual of orthopedic surgery by Stewart LeRoy McCurdy (1898)
"On back—circle legs. 11. On back—stick in hands, patient resisting. 12. On back—stick
in hands, surgeon resisting. 13. Patients legs over end of table, ..."
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