half gainer

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   a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward and up to complete a half backward somersault and enters the water facing the diving board

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Questions about half gainer

What does half gainer mean?

half gainer means "a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward and up to complete a half backward somersault and enters the water facing the diving board".

Is half gainer a common word?

half 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.