bicycle kick

English

Noun

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.

Synonyms

overhead kick
scissor kick

Translations

exercise

Polish: rowerek (pl) m

kick

Catalan: xilena (ca) f
Finnish: saksipotku
French: bicyclette (fr) f
German: Fallrückzieher (de) m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: brassespark n
Nynorsk: brassespark n

Polish: przewrotka (pl) f
Portuguese: bicicleta (pt) f
Spanish: chilena (es) f
Swedish: cykelspark (sv), bicykleta (sv) c
Turkish: rövaşata (tr)

Verb

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

to perform a bicycle kick.