| 单词 | counter-rocker |
| 释义 | > as lemmascounter-rocker 6. Skating. A turn in which the body is revolved in a direction opposite to that in which it was revolved in the previous turns. Called also counter-rocker, counter-rocking turn. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skating > [noun] > figure-skating > figure > specific figure or movement spread eagle1823 Q1852 grapevine1868 loop1869 rocking turn1869 Mohawk1880 vine1891 bracket1892 Choctaw1892 counter1892 rocker1892 scud1892 three1895 toe-spin1921 death spiral1933 1892 T. M. Witham Figure Skating in J. M. Heathcote & C. G. Tebbutt Skating (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) iii. 107 In the rockers and counters (which figures used to be designated rocking turns and counter-rocking turns), although there is a change of direction the nature of the edge is preserved. 1892 T. M. Witham Figure Skating in J. M. Heathcote & C. G. Tebbutt Skating (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) iii. 111 A counter may..be regarded as half a bracket plus half a three. 1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport II. 366/2 The four counter-rocking turns. Counter-rocking turns or counters are turns in which one edge of the skate only is used, the body being revolved in an opposite or counter direction to that in which it is revolved in the corresponding ‘three’ turns. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 642/2 The ‘star’, consisting of four crosses (forward rocker, back loop, back counter). 1908 E. F. Benson Eng. Figure Skating 244 ‘Once counter back’ is forward counter and inside back. 1928 Daily Express 19 Dec. 15/4 Her pirouettes, toe-spins, and counter-rockers. 1967 Daily Tel. 1 Mar. 12/6 Miss Stapleford made an excellent start in the first figure, the forward inside counter. < as lemmas |
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