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BACKHAND [8 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2011-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

A ground stroke hit on the left of the body by right-handed players, and on the right of the body by left-handers.

CONT

When Greg Rusedski hits a tennis ball, it seems to involve a lot of moving parts. A lean six-foot-four and 190 pounds, he's all arms and legs as he whomps his big serve and whacks his forehands and backhands.

OBS

Generic term which includes "backhand shot," "backhand slice," "backhand drive," "backhand topspin," etc. - any shot requiring the use of one's backhand. Some purists feel that the term "drive" should strictly allude to a ball hit with a lot of pace regardless of the spin or lack thereof. The terms "shot" and "stroke," however, are more neutral and need not imply any added pace (e.g. drop shot).

PHR

Angled, backspin, chip, crosscourt, flat, hard, hook, inside, inside-out, one-handed, penetrating, righthanded, sharp, short-angled, solid, two-handed backhand.

PHR

Backhand basics, side, slice, miscues.

PHR

To run around one's backhand.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

Coup exécuté du fond du court après le rebond de la balle et sur la gauche du joueur (pour un gaucher, le revers est effectué à droite).

CONT

Comme le coup droit, le revers peut être coupé ou lifté. Il peut aussi s'effectuer à deux mains.

CONT

Contrairement à la majorité des joueurs et joueuses de tennis, son meilleur coup est le revers (à une main).

PHR

Revers brossé, croisé, défaillant, de passing, slicé, tendu.

PHR

Revers à une main.

PHR

Attaquer, jouer sur le revers d'un adversaire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
DEF

Golpe que se da a la izquierda del cuerpo.

CONT

[...] podemos desdoblar también el golpe de derecha, e, igualmente, lo haríamos luego con el golpe de revés.

PHR

Revés cortado, liftado, plano.

PHR

Ejecutar, realizar un revés.

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Record 2 2004-09-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Baseball and Softball
  • Special-Language Phraseology
DEF

To catch a fly ball or field a grounder with the arm across the body.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Baseball et softball
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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Record 3 2003-06-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

[A shot made on the] left side of the body for a right-hander; the right side for a left-hander.

CONT

Backhand shots are hit on the non-dom inant side of the body. Assuming that the racket is an extension of the hand, the shuttle then would be hit on the back of the hand.

OBS

The "ideal" backhand grip shows just a slight alteration on the top of the thumb from across to up the flat of the handle.

OBS

Badminton.

Key term(s)
  • back-hand
  • back-hand shot

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

[...] coup dans lequel la raquette est maniée du côté opposé à la main qui la tient.

CONT

Coup frappé du revers de côté, de façon à envoyer le volant horizontalement à hauteur du filet.

OBS

Le volant est renvoyé par l'envers de la raquette, du côté opposé du coup droit.

OBS

Badminton.

Spanish

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Record 4 2002-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lacrosse
OBS

This shot can be used when the goalie comes across the net and takes away the opening on the shooter's stick side (long side) leaving the side vacant that the shooter just came from (short side)... By moving the stick out to the side and slightly behind his body, the player flexes his top-hand arm, bringing his stick over his shoulder and behind his back.

OBS

Our reading has indicated that the over-the-shoulder shot can indicate both a simple overhand shot (i.e., above the shoulder) and a shot in which the shooter swings the stick both behind the back and over the shoulder.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Crosse
CONT

Il existe aussi la passe arrière. Elle s'effectue par un mouvement du bâton qui passe par derrière la tête jusqu'à l'épaule opposée.

Spanish

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Record 5 2002-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ice Hockey
DEF

A pass or shot on goal made with the back of the blade, the impulsion being given with the back of the controlling or lower hand which faces the direction of the movement; any shot, on target or not, made with a backhand stroke.

CONT

[The] backhander [is] taken when the puck goes to the other side of the stick from which the player normally shoots.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hockey sur glace
DEF

Passe ou tir au but effectué avec le revers de la lame, l'impulsion étant donnée avec le dos de la main la plus basse sur le bâton ou qui contrôle le tir et fait face à la direction du mouvement; tout lancer de la rondelle, précis ou non, fait d'un coup du revers.

OBS

Même si «lancer de revers» et «tir de revers» pourraient sembler les entrées lexicales, ce sont «lancer du revers» et «tir du revers (de la main, de la lame)» qui sont les formes à privilégier.

Spanish

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Record 6 2000-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Baseball and Softball
CONT

[I threw] a ball against a wall in different directions to stimulate back-hands, fore-hands, short hops...

Key term(s)
  • backhand
  • back hand

French

Domaine(s)
  • Baseball et softball
CONT

Lancer la balle contre le mur en divers endroits pour s'exercer aux attrapés droits, du revers et après de courts bonds.

Spanish

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Record 7 1999-06-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Handwriting Analysis and Cryptography
DEF

... Handwriting whose strokes slant downward from left to right.

CONT

When tall letters and capitals and long letters slant to the left (backhand writing), the writer resorts to dissimulation and maneuvers as the easiest way out of disagreeable and embarrassing situations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Graphologie et cryptographie
DEF

[...] Incliné en arrière. [...]

CONT

Écriture renversée, penchée vers la gauche.

CONT

On ne trouvera jamais d'écriture renversée à gauche chez un enfant. Elle apparaît chez l'adolescent, pendant cette douloureuse gestation de l'être qui se cherche, s'interroge, dont les tourments et les conflits intérieurs sont parfois tellement intolérables qu'ils conduisent au suicide.

Spanish

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Record 8 1979-07-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ice Hockey
OBS

The action of shooting or passing in which the lower hand on the hockey stick pulls the stick in order to propel the puck.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hockey sur glace
OBS

Il désigne tous les coups exécutés sur le côté opposé à celui dont le joueur tient normalement sont bâton. Le revers d'un joueur gaucher est le coup droit d'un joueur droitier.

Spanish

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