prone float

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   a floating position with the face down and arms stretched forward

   Synonymsdead-man's float

   Broaderfloating

Questions about prone float

What does prone float mean?

prone float means "a floating position with the face down and arms stretched forward".

What is another word for prone float?

Close synonyms include dead-man's 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 prone float a common word?

prone 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.