dead-man's float

1. 1.

   a floating position with the face down and arms stretched forward

   Synonymsprone float

   Broaderfloating

Questions about dead-man's float

What does dead-man's float mean?

dead-man's float means "a floating position with the face down and arms stretched forward".

What is another word for dead-man's float?

Close synonyms include prone float. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dead-man's float a common word?

dead-man's float 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.