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Definition of Handstand
1. Noun. The act of supporting yourself by your hands alone in an upside down position.
Definition of Handstand
1. Noun. A movement or position in which a person is upside down, supported by their arms with their hands on the ground. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Handstand
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handstand
Literary usage of Handstand
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gymnastics: A Text-book of the German-American System of Gymnastics by William Albin Stecher (1896)
"... roll backward with straightening the body quickly into a shoulder- stand right;
push up to a handstand ; step over with the left hand onto the second ..."
2. Gymnastic Teaching by William Skarstrom (1921)
"High face vault left and right (through handstand). ... High squat vault (through
handstand). One hand side vault left with quarter right turn. ..."
3. Amateur Circus Life by Ernest Berkeley Balch, Ernest Berkeley Blach (1916)
"Bridge handstand Snap-up. In the bridge and handstand (illustration 4), the
Understander is invariably* supposed by an audience to ..."
4. How to Swim by James H. Sterrett (1919)
"... somersault) 1.7 1.7 2O—handstand dive , 1.4 19—Flying Dutchman with halt twist
1.7 1.7 21—handstand dive with somersault 1.7 ..."
5. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1870)
"... they made a halt Before their ships, and bade each other stand, And lifted up
their handstand prayed aloud 435 To all the gods; while Hector, ..."
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