backflip

Etymology
en

Noun

 * 1)  An act of rotating one's body 360 degrees in the backward direction.
 * The gymnast performed a backflip on a trampoline.
 * 1)  a total reversal in policy or opinion; a volte-face, a U-turn.
 * 2) * Courier Mail, 29 Jan 2007
 * PM predicts water recycling backflips.

Derived terms

 * 360 backflip

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: задно салто
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: achterwaartse salto, backflip
 * Esperanto: transkapiĝa salto, mortosalto
 * Finnish: taaksepäinvoltti
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: Backflip, Rückwärtssalto, Salto rückwärts, Überschlag rückwärts
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: salto mortale all'indietro
 * Japanese: バク転
 * Korean:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: о́братно са́лто, са́лто на́назад
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Plautdietsch:
 * Portuguese: salto mortal
 * Romanian: salt înapoi
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: geri takla, geriye takla, ters takla
 * Vietnamese: lộn ngược
 * Welsh:


 * Bulgarian: пълен обрат
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, lehmänkäännös
 * French: ,
 * German: Salto rückwärts, 180°-Wende, ,
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: це́лосен пре́сврт
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: u-sväng
 * Thai:

Verb

 * 1) To perform a backflip rotation of body.
 * 2) To completely reverse a policy or opinion; perform a U-turn.

Translations

 * Dutch: backflippen


 * Portuguese: voltar atrás, mudar de opinião