backflip

noun

back·flip ˈbak-ˌflip

: a backward somersault especially in the air

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Fast forward to this year’s Spring Festival Gala, and Unitree again impressed the crowd with its robots’ more advanced moves that included backflips and leaps over platforms. — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026 Unitree's humanoid robots, for example, dazzled audiences at China's annual Spring Festival gala by performing backflips and martial arts. — ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026 Unitree, the first humanoid robotics maker to go public on a mainland Chinese exchange, has won global attention with its humanoid and quadruped robots that can run, dance and do backflips and kung fu. — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 19 Aug. 2026 Lyra Valkyria Sol Ruca stuck the landing on a beautiful backflip before coming back with a dropkick. — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for backflip

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1904, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of backflip was in 1904

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backflip

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back·flip -ˌflip

: a backward somersault especially in the air

backflip

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