carioca

plural cariocas

1. A sideways step in which one leg crosses over the other.

   Leg press, squat, circle running, figure eights, single-leg hops, vertical jumps, lateral bounds, one-legged long jumps, and carioca (crossover walking) are some examples.

   2007, Walter R. Frontera, Clinical Sports Medicine: Medical Management and Rehabilitation, →ISBN

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   In the final phase, the athlete works in non-cleated shoes on starts, stops, jumps, rounded side-step cuts, and crossover cuts, advancing to hard 90° cuts, and running tighter and tighter figures-of-eight. Defensive backs run sideways and backward and perform carioca (crossover) steps.

   1982, Arthur J. Helfet, Disorders of the knee, page 388

   These included the cocontraction maneuver (a shuffling maneuver around a semicircle while tethered to surgical tubing), a carioca (crossover stepping), and a shuttle run (an acceleration and deceleration test).

   2006, Michael L. Voight, Barbara J. Hoogenboom, William E. Prentice, Musculoskeletal Interventions: Techniques for Therapeutic Exercise, →ISBN

2. alternativeAlternative form of Carioca.

   Or he might go to Rio. Rio with its white sand. He knew a rhyme about Rio, its thieving cariocas who wore sparkling wedding dresses.

   2011, Robert Minhinnick, The Keys of Babylon, →ISBN

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   But, for someone looking at it objectively, the relationship is a deceptive one – because at the same time as cariocas can't be seen working (shut up as they are in offices, government institutions and commercial establishments), everyone can see cariocas not working.

   2010, Ruy Castro, Rio de Janeiro: Carnival under Fire, →ISBN

   Even though cariocas are very professional they tend to be more laid back and easy going than business people from Sao Paulo. You can notice this as soon as you talk to a carioca.

   2012, Ade Asefeso, CEO Guide to Doing Business in Brazil, →ISBN

plural Cariocas · alternative carioca

1. A native or inhabitant of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil

   Needless to say, a true Carioca never makes mistakes when dealing with money.

   2008, Priscilla Goslin, How to Be a Carioca: The Alternative Guide for the Tourist in Rio, →ISBN, page 43

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   I was impassioned about this because my Portuguese professor at Johns Hopkins was a Carioca, or native of Rio de Janeiro, and the first thing she told us in class was that she was going to make us all Cariocas.

   2012, Katherine Losse, The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network, →ISBN

   Cariocas – as inhabitants of Rio are called – panicked, and the newspapers reported the deteriorating situation in the city.

   2017, Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World, →ISBN

1. A river in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil; in full, the Carioca River.