bicycle kick

English

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

Noun

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.
   • 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.

Synonyms

• overhead kick
• scissor kick

Translations

exercise

• Polish: rowerek (pl) m

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)

Verb

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.