bicycle kick

English

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

bicycle kick (plural bicycle kicks)

A form of exercise in which one lies on one's back and makes cycling motions with the legs.
(soccer) A kick in which the kicker leans backwards and kicks the ball back over his head.
- 2011 October 15, David Ornstein, “Man City 4 - 1 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport‎:
  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.

exercise

soccer: kick

Catalan: xilena (ca) f
Finnish: saksipotku
French: bicyclette (fr) f
Galician: chilena f
German: Fallrückzieher (de) m
Hebrew: {מספרת}
Italian: rovesciata (it) f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: brassespark n

Nynorsk: brassespark n
Polish: przewrotka (pl) f
Portuguese: bicicleta (pt) f, pontapé de bicicleta m
Spanish: chilena (es) f
Swedish: cykelspark (sv), bicykleta (sv) c, bicicleta (sv) c (not in dictionaries, but a more common spelling in practice)
Turkish: rövaşata (tr)

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

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