full gainer

1. 1.

   a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward to complete a full backward somersault and enters the water feet first and facing away from the diving board

   Synonymsgainer

   Broaderdive

Questions about full gainer

What does full gainer mean?

full gainer means "a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward to complete a full backward somersault and enters the water feet first and facing away from the diving board".

What is another word for full gainer?

Close synonyms include gainer. 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 full gainer a common word?

full gainer 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.