freestyle
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freestyle (countable and uncountable, plural freestyles)
- (sports) A sports event where competitors can choose their own method of participation.
- (swimming) A swimming event in which the contestants may choose any stroke.
- (swimming, by extension) The swimming stroke commonly referred to as the front crawl or the Australian crawl.
- (skiing) A cross-country skiing event in which the competitors may choose any style of skiing.
- (wrestling) A style of wrestling in which any non-injurious holds are permitted.
- (swimming) A swimming event in which the contestants may choose any stroke.
- (music) A form of rapping in which the emcee makes up lyrics while performing.
- 2014, Michael W. Waters, Freestyle: Reflections on Faith, Family, Justice, and Pop Culture[1], Fresh Air Books, →ISBN:
- In the world of hip hop, many freestyle artists have been known to speak, “Check one, check two!” into the microphone. The phrasing serves two purposes: (1) to put the freestyle artist on rhythm with the beat and (2) […]
- (by extension, attributive) Anything done in an improvised or unrestricted way.
- 2012, Sarah Marx Feldner, A Cook's Journey to Japan: 100 Homestyle Recipes from Japanese Kitchens[2], Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN:
- (While there are definitely a large number of Japanese cookbooks out there with detailed instructions and measurements, it was this freestyle cooking philosophy I most frequently encountered.)
- (music) Ellipsis of Latin freestyle, a form of electronic dance music.
- 2012 March 2, Nick Minichino, “A Quick Primer On Freestyle: 1980s Dancepop's Most Underheralded Genre”, in The Village Voice[3]:
- A not always visibly but nevertheless significantly Latin music, freestyle originated alongside hip-hop in the Bronx and achieved a quicker yet more fleeting commercial success. The style’s similarities to contemporaneous R&B and hi-NRG endeared it to pop radio programmers, […]
- 2012, Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash, Soft Skull Press, page 281:
- Already a veteran DJ-producer on New York’s freestyle scene, 23-year-old Frankie Bones was flown to England for an Energy rave.
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swimming event
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front crawl
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style of wrestling
form of rapping
Verb edit
freestyle (third-person singular simple present freestyles, present participle freestyling, simple past and past participle freestyled)
- (intransitive, especially in rap music) To improvise one's own style; to ad-lib.
- 2016, Jensen Karp, Kanye West Owes Me $300: And Other True Stories from a White Rapper Who Almost Made It Big, Crown, →ISBN, page 47:
- And just hours after the famous golfer died in an airplane accident, I freestyled to a less talented rival, “Stop now before you get hurt / Your whole style should never take flight like Payne Stewart.”
- (intransitive) To improvise one's dance moves; dance freely.
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to ad-lib in rap music
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Finnish edit
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freestyle
- freestyle (sports event in which the participants can choose their own style, especially freestyle skiing)
- freestyle (style of rapping)
Usage notes edit
- As is the case with many loanwords, the inflection of this term is problematic. Kotus recommends type 8 (nalle) in writing, as shown below, but in speech the declension usually follows type 5 (risti) as if the word were spelled friistaili.
Declension edit
Inflection of freestyle (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | freestyle | freestylet | ||
genitive | freestylen | freestylejen | ||
partitive | freestyleä | freestylejä | ||
illative | freestyleen | freestyleihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | freestyle | freestylet | ||
accusative | nom. | freestyle | freestylet | |
gen. | freestylen | |||
genitive | freestylen | freestylejen freestyleinrare | ||
partitive | freestyleä | freestylejä | ||
inessive | freestylessä | freestyleissä | ||
elative | freestylestä | freestyleistä | ||
illative | freestyleen | freestyleihin | ||
adessive | freestylellä | freestyleillä | ||
ablative | freestyleltä | freestyleiltä | ||
allative | freestylelle | freestyleille | ||
essive | freestylenä | freestyleinä | ||
translative | freestyleksi | freestyleiksi | ||
abessive | freestylettä | freestyleittä | ||
instructive | — | freestylein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms edit
- (freestyle skiing): freestylehiihto
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compounds
Further reading edit
- “freestyle”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
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Borrowed from English freestyle.
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Audio (file)
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freestyle m (uncountable)
- (sports) freestyle (skiing and snowboarding) (freestyle skiing, snowboarding) Ellipsis of sports de glisse freestyle.
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Unadapted borrowing from English freestyle.
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freestyle m inan
- (sports) freestyle (sports event where competitors can choose their own method of participation)
- (music) freestyle (form of rapping in which the emcee makes up lyrics while performing)
Declension edit
Declension of freestyle
singular | plural | |
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nominative | freestyle | freestyle'e |
genitive | freestyle'u | freestyle'i |
dative | freestyle'owi | freestyle'om |
accusative | freestyle | freestyle'e |
instrumental | freestyle'em | freestyle'ami |
locative | freestyle'u | freestyle'ach |
vocative | freestyle'u | freestyle'e |
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adjectives
noun
verb
Further reading edit
- freestyle in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English freestyle.
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freestyle m (uncountable)
- freestyle (form of rapping)
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freestyle m (uncountable)
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Etymology edit
Pseudo-anglicism, derived from freestyle, which was the genericized trademark of the Sony Walkman portable cassette player in Sweden.
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freestyle c
- A walkman, a portable audio cassette player.
- 1997, Annika Thor, Sanning eller konsekvens, Bonnier Carlsen (publ., 2009 ed.).
- :En freestyle är ju en ganska dyr sak, en sån som man inte köper själv för månadspengen.
- A walkman is as we all know a pretty expensive thing; you don't buy one of those by yourself from your monthly pocket money.
- (skiing) freestyle
- (music) freestyle (form of rapping)
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Declension of freestyle | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | freestyle | freestyleen | freestylear | freestylearna |
Genitive | freestyles | freestyleens | freestylears | freestylearnas |