back circle

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   a feat in which an acrobat arches the back from a prone position and bends the knees until the toes touch the head

   Broaderacrobatic stunt

Questions about back circle

What does back circle mean?

back circle means "a feat in which an acrobat arches the back from a prone position and bends the knees until the toes touch the head".

Is back circle a common word?

back circle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.