backswing

noun

back·​swing ˈbak-ˌswiŋ 

: the movement of a club, racket, bat, or arm backward to a position from which the forward or downward swing is made

Example Sentences

a golfer with a short backswing

Recent Examples on the Web

Daly’s recent scorecards may not be major worthy, but his nonchalant character and fascinatingly long backswing are still big draws for fans in attendance and at home, so he will certainly be missed. —Scott Thompson, Fox News, 15 May 2023

But as the amplitude increases, the optimal timing shifts to favor leaning back earlier, when the swinger is at the highest point in her backswing. —Bykatie Mccormick, science.org, 7 Apr. 2023

Left elbow stays straight during your backswing. —Michael Mcknight, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022

Metallica in the backswing? —Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 5 July 2021

For this week at the PGA championship, the same goes for every lunkhead who snapped a photo in the middle of a backswing, every 50-year-old who crowded out a kid in an autograph line, every scampering porta-potty seeker who incurred the wrath of an over-officious caddie. —Eddie Pells, Star Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020

The backswing involves rotation in the lower back, pelvis and hip joints. —Jen Murphy, WSJ, 16 June 2022

Wynns took a backswing to the head in the fourth and was examined by a trainer but stayed in. —Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 June 2022

On television, anchors used slow-motion video to analyze and fawn over Charlie’s backswing, his follow-through, his hip turn. —Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2021

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Word History

First Known Use

1892, in the meaning defined above