backflip

English

Etymology

From back- +‎ flip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæk.flɪp/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

backflip (plural backflips)

1. (gymnastics) An act of rotating one's body 360 degrees in the backward direction.

   Hypernyms: flip < move, movement

   Hyponym: 360 backflip

   Coordinate terms: backbend, frontflip, somersault

   The gymnast performed a backflip on a trampoline.

2. (by extension) A total reversal in policy or opinion.

   Synonyms: flip-flop, volte-face, U-turn

   Near-synonyms: backtrack, backpedaling

   • Courier Mail, 29 Jan 2007

     PM predicts water recycling backflips

Derived terms

• 360 backflip

Related terms

• frontflip

Translations

an act of rotating one's body

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• Bulgarian: задно салто (zadno salto)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 後空翻 / 后空翻 (zh) (hòukōngfān)

• Dutch: achterwaartse salto m, backflip (nl) f
• Esperanto: transkapiĝa salto, mortosalto
• Finnish: taaksepäinvoltti
• French: salto arrière (fr) m
• Galician: please add this translation if you can
• German: Backflip m, Rückwärtssalto (de) m, Salto rückwärts m, Überschlag rückwärts m
• Greek: σάλτο πίσω (sálto píso, literally “jump backwards”)
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• Hungarian: hátraszaltó (hu)
• Italian: salto mortale all'indietro m
• Japanese: バク転 (ja) (bakuten)
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• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: о́братно са́лто n (óbratno sálto), са́лто на́назад n (sálto nánazad)
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• Polish: salto w tył n
• Portuguese: salto mortal m
• Romanian: salt înapoi n
• Russian: са́льто (ru) n (sálʹto) наза́д (ru) (nazád)
• Serbo-Croatian: salta (sh)
• Spanish: voltereta hacia atrás f, backflip m
• Swedish: bakåtvolt (sv) c
• Thai: ตีลังกากลับหลัง
• Turkish: geri takla, geriye takla, ters takla
• Vietnamese: lộn ngược
• Welsh: please add this translation if you can

total reversal in policy or opinion

• Bulgarian: пълен обрат (pălen obrat)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 徹底改變立場 / 彻底改变立场 (chèdǐ gǎibiàn lìchǎng)

• Dutch: koersverandering (nl) f, ommezwaai (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: takinkääntö (fi), lehmänkäännös
• French: volte-face (fr) f, revirement (fr) m
• German: Salto rückwärts m, 180°-Wende f, Kehrtwende (de) f, Umkehr (de) f
• Italian: voltafaccia (it) m
• Macedonian: це́лосен пре́сврт m (célosen présvrt)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: cotitură (ro) f
• Russian: разворот (ru) m (razvorot)
• Swedish: u-sväng c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

Verb

backflip (third-person singular simple present backflips, present participle backflipping, simple past and past participle backflipped)

1. To perform a backflip (rotation of body).

   Hypernyms: flip < move

   Coordinate terms: backbend, frontflip, somersault

   • 2023 August 5, Ben Sisario, “How Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Conquered the World”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 August 2023:

     On the July day that she put out a music video featuring Taylor Lautner, an ex-boyfriend, the actor backflipped across the stage in Kansas City, Mo., and paid Swift effusive tribute — “not just for the singer you are,” Lautner said, “but for the human you are.”

2. To completely reverse a policy or opinion; perform a U-turn.

   Synonyms: flip-flop, U-turn

   Coordinate terms: dial back, ease off

   Near-synonyms: backtrack, backpedal, walk back

Derived terms

• backflipper

Translations

to perform a backflip

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 翻後空翻 / 翻后空翻 (fān hòukōngfān)

• Dutch: backflippen (nl)
• Finnish: tehdä voltti taaksepäin
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

to completely reverse a policy or opinion

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 徹底改變立場 / 彻底改变立场 (chèdǐ gǎibiàn lìchǎng)

• Dutch: omzwaaien (nl)
• Finnish: tehdä täyskäännös
• Portuguese: voltar atrás, mudar de opinião

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English backflip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɡflip/ [ˈbaɣ̞.flip]
  • Rhymes: -aɡflip
• IPA^(key): /baɡˈflip/ [baɣ̞ˈflip]
  • Rhymes: -ip
• Syllabification: back‧flip

Noun

backflip m (plural backflips)

1. (countable) a backflip

   Synonyms: voltereta hacia atrás, salto mortal hacia atrás

   Coordinate term: frontflip