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handstand

[ UK /hˈændstænd/ ]
[ US /ˈhændˌstænd/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of supporting yourself by your hands alone in an upside down position

How To Use handstand In A Sentence

  • I read that he used to breakdance (which shows) and that sick one arm handstand? 'Glee' upcoming clips have me singing its praises | EW.com
  • When you see physical strength and ability like that, it's really inspiring - it makes me want to do handstands and backflips.
  • Chen, who is now playing elder sister to many of her younger classmates, has already accustomed herself to the endless backward somersaults, handstands and horse vaults.
  • As part of our warm up, we were doing tumbles and on one of them (a reverse handstand into a roll) I stupidly hit my own face with my knee.
  • Out on the sugar-white Florida panhandle sand, freckle-faced Patrick Mulligan, 20, does a handstand while his friends from the University of Massachusetts funnel -- "bong" -- a quart of foaming Budweiser into his mouth. To-Ga! To-Ga! To-Ga! To-Ga!
  • Pushups, lunges and handstands are the most productive and efficient exercises for training strength, balance and coordination.
  • Handcuffed, he performed a backflip and a handstand. The Sun
  • Seventy and still mighty enough to do a yogic handstand, Ivy passed through the room in her celestial gold Valentino from his final collection; her diamonds and pearls perched atop her small chest like a prow cutting the sea. Three Stages of Amazement
  • Considering the twins were already doing handstands and backflips while blindfolded on the top of a revolving 16-metre high wheel of death, it's difficult to imagine how the Russians might have gone one better.
  • He was not surprised by fancy suggestions such as bending backward to touch the head to the floor, handstands, five-minute headstands and, of course, various pretzels of the leg-behind-the-neck category.
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