[
UK
/hˈɛdstænd/
]
NOUN
- an acrobatic feat in which a person balances on the head (usually with the help of the hands)
How To Use headstand In A Sentence
- However, last week's class brought us into a realm of chaos I never thought possible in a class that includes meditation: headstands.
- The manatees performed headstands and even nudged them with their noses to get scratched and petted.
- When it came to performing, I used to specialise in the solo exercises on the floor, which meant doing handstands, headstands, rolls, jumps, flips - everything.
- What does that guy hope to achieve with his headstand on a chair? Times, Sunday Times
- My daughter had a bruise on her head and shoulder, but the two riding in the back seats were fine. I was in there for another hour and a half, upside down doing a yoga headstand because that was the only way I could breathe.
- They did headstands, armstands, they became trees, the trunks and limbs of trees, then bodies crawling over each other like larvae, then upright with the prowess of panthers.
- ‘Ideally, we want students with some amount of core strength and some experience doing inversions - headstands and handstands,’ says Goldberg.
- At the institute, he does his yoga practice - quiet forward bends, rock-steady headstands, precise backbends - in full view of the students.
- 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.
- Maneuvers like face plants, front flips, back flips, cartwheels, butt flops, and headstands aren't rad new acrobatics.