bicycle kick - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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Diagram of the different stages in a bicycle kick

The phases of the execution of a bicycle kick. R = right foot.

bicycle kick (plural bicycle kicks)

  1. A form of exercise in which one lies on one's back and makes cycling motions with the legs.
  2. (soccer) A kick in which the kicker leans backwards and kicks the ball back over his head.
    Synonyms: overhead kick, scissor kick
    • 2011 October 15, David Ornstein, “Man City 4 - 1 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport‎[1]:
      Yaya Toure sent over a hopeful cross-field pass that Warnock attempted to clear with a bicycle kick, only to calamitously set Johnson up for a low finish past Given.

soccer: kick

bicycle kick (third-person singular simple present bicycle kicks, present participle bicycle kicking, simple past and past participle bicycle kicked)

  1. (intransitive) To perform a bicycle kick.

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