frontbend

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/ˈfrʌntbɛnd/

noun

Any pose with an unusual degree of backward bending at the waist and/or any portion of spine while standing, kneeling, resting on the floor, or while suspended.

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Meanings

nounfrontbend (plural frontbends)

plural frontbends

  1. danceAny pose with an unusual degree of backward bending at the waist and/or any portion of spine while standing, kneeling, resting on the floor, or while suspended.

    Finish in kneel on right, left leg pointed front; sit back on right heel, frontbend—arms downward to low rear.

    1965, Gymnastics Guide (Sports library for girls and women), Division for Girls and Women's Sports, American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation., page 92
verbfrontbend (third-person singular simple present frontbends, present participle frontbending, simple past and past participle frontbended)

present singular third person frontbends · participle present frontbending · participle past frontbended · past frontbended

  1. To perfrom a frontbend.

    The practice of contortion can be divided into three categories: backbending, frontbending and dislocation.

    2016, Louis Patrick Leroux, Charles R. Batson, Cirque Global: Quebec's Expanding Circus Boundaries, McGill-Queen's Press, →ISBN, page 297
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    They had extraordinary frontbending and backbending skills and could tuck their feet under their chins and waggle them – in triplicate!

    2013, Gruesome Facts: Factopedia, Igloo Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 222

Origin

From front + bend.

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APA

frontbend. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frontbend

MLA

“frontbend.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frontbend. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “frontbend,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frontbend.

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