freestyleadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈfriːstʌɪl/, U.S.

/ˈfriˌstaɪl/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: free adj., style n.

Etymology: < free adj. + style n.

A. adj.

1. Sport.

a. Of or designating a sporting event or competition in which the rules governing technique are relatively unrestrictive; spec. designating a swimming race in which each competitor is free to choose his or her style of stroke.The crawl stroke is often chosen in freestyle competitions.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [adjective] > other specific style

judicial1532

heroic1590

judiciary1603

wild1645

heroi-comic1708

mock-heroic1708

heroi-comical1712

flebilea1734

prosai-comi-epic1749

lusory1779

sulphureous1791

harlequinic1804

mock-heroical1825

newspaperish1825

marmoreal1892

kailyard1895

freestyle1906

paperback1921

nouny1926

Time-ese1947

nounal1952

kitchen sink1959

effectist1961

writerly1974

dirty realist1984

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > swimming race > [adjective] > type of race

freestyle1906

masters1972

1906 Fitchburg (Mass.) Daily Sentinel 25 Apr. 3/3 The free style discus throwing in the stadium, this morning, was won by Martin J. Sheridan.

1912 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily News 9 July 14/4 Lastorres, Australia, won the second heat in the semi-final of the 1,500 meter free style swimming race.

1950 Oxf. Junior Encycl. IX. 454/2 In free-style and breast-stroke races the competitors start with a dive.

1988 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 11 Feb. ix. 2 The women's 20K and 4x5K relay are freestyle races, meaning competitors may use the new, generally faster skating style [of Nordic skiing].

2004 New Yorker 5 July 79/3 Coughlin swam the lead-off leg for Cal in the four-hundred-metre freestyle relay.

b. Of or designating a sporting event, competition, or discipline emphasizing improvisation or personal expression, esp. through the execution of acrobatic manoeuvres or the performance of a unique individual routine.

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society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [adjective]

tournamental1801

freestyle1974

1974 N.Y. Times 15 Apr. 42/2 The Heavenly Valley skier..came in eighth in yesterday's free-style mogul event but his earlier showings in aerial acrobatics and ballet gave him top honors.

1976 J. Grant Skateboarding vi. 58 Judges at freestyle competitions usually penalize for a grounded toe.

1986 Rider Spring 35/1 Free-style dressage is like playing a cadenza—you have the freedom to compose a test and choose music to suit your horse.

2005 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 5 Feb. m2/6 In freestyle footbag..lone competitors execute athletic routines to the beat of techno, jungle, hip-hop and rock music.

2. Of a literary, musical, or artistic work or performance: = free adj. 10b.

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society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [adjective] > qualities of works generally

wateryc1230

polite?a1500

meagre1539

over-laboured1579

bald1589

spiritless1592

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meretricious1633

standing1661

effectual1662

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abstract1857

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literary1900

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soft-centred1935

freestyle1938

pseudish1938

decadent1942

post-human1944

kitschy1946

faux-naïf1958

spare1965

1938 Manch. Guardian Weekly 2 Sept. 188/3 Swing musicians..blaze away at a real ‘clambake’ (free-style swing playing).

1958 P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz x. 125 He helped to keep free-style jazz alive with his Clambake Seven.

1977 J. Wilton-Ely in S. Kostof Architect 202 From these origins were to emerge the ‘free-style’ concepts as developed by Norman Shaw and Charles Voysey in domestic design.

2001 R. Z. Rivera in Mambo Montage viii. 254 This redrawing of the realm of creative expression is reminiscent of freestyle music in the late 1980s, which pushed the bounds of New York Puerto Rican creativity.

B. n.

1. Sport.

a. A freestyle sporting event, competition, or discipline; a technique or method used in this.

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society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > types of

all comersc1450

after-gamea1500

fore-game1594

revenge1616

plate1639

set-to1743

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bye1754

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Olympiad1896

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freestyle1906

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test1908

Derby1909

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eliminator1911

twosome1911

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curtain jerker1923

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open1926

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knock-out1928

shirt1930

masters1933

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tune-up1934

World Cup1934

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Super Bowl1967

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slobberknocker1986

1906 N.Y. Times Mag. 21 Oct. 4/1 The generosity and hospitable spirit of the Greek Princes provided a contest in the ‘free style’, or more properly ‘no style’, in which they [sc. the Americans] easily excelled.

1932 Times 4 Feb. 5/4 The results were:—100 yards ladies' free-style.—Miss Bult (Victoria), 1.

1943 Ogden (Utah) Standard Examiner 28 Mar. 10 a Junior dance,..junior free-style and junior pairs.

1987 BMX Plus! Sept. 14/3 Freestyle is a way of life, limited not only to earthquakin', sky-shakin' radness, but also including maintaining the attitude that you don't always have to follow in anyone else's footsteps.

2002 J. Weyland Answer is Never iv. 43 The focus of skating at the time was known as flatland freestyle.

b. Swimming. More fully freestyle stroke. Any of various strokes commonly used in freestyle events; (in later use) esp. the crawl stroke.

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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > [noun] > swimming > stroke > specific

hand over hand1844

sidestroke1852

breast swimming1861

steamer1861

breaststroke1864

dog paddle1874

backstroke1876

trudgen1893

frog kick1896

overstroke1902

scissors kick1902

crawl1903

scissors1908

freestyle1916

doggy paddle1921

front crawl1924

back-crawl1929

butterfly stroke1934

butterfly1936

butterfly kick1937

1916 N.Y. Times 17 Jan. 13/4 [The four-beat single trudgeon crawl] features the double, alternate, over-water arm action off [read of] all the modern free-style strokes.

1967 Times 11 Sept. 3/5 He was in the water, using the freestyle stroke, for eight hours.

1987 T. Winton Blood & Water 75 Every stroke of her dogged freestyle was a blow, and with each swim she knew she was shifting more than her own weight.

2007 Daily News (Los Angeles) (Nexis) 3 May s7 I'm not as confident with my backstroke and my breaststroke as I am with my freestyle.

2. Originally U.S. An improvisational rap or rap song; improvisational rapping.

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1983 N.Y. Times 28 Aug. 60/4 A ‘freestyle’, in which rapping emcees traded improvised rhymes in a verbal jam session..brought out members of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.

1992 Vibe Fall (Preview Issue) 58/1 Vinnie would do the human beat box as Treach dropped freestyle lyrics.

1995 Represent Apr.–May 33/1 To me anyone can come off the head with a rhyme, I don't consider that to be freestyle.

2000 Toronto Sun (Nexis) 24 Nov. 10 16 Bars, a freestyle from The Notorious B.I.G.

2004 M. M. Lewis Scars of Soul ii. ix. 162 Eventually the freestyle ends, as every MC knows.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

freestylev.

Brit.

/ˈfriːstʌɪl/, U.S.

/ˈfriˌstaɪl/

Origin: Probably formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: freestyle adj.; freestyle n.

Etymology: Probably partly < freestyle adj. and partly < freestyle n. Compare earlier freestyler n.

Originally U.S.

1. Sport.

a. transitive and intransitive. Swimming. To swim using a freestyle stroke (typically the crawl). Cf. freestyle n. 1b.

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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > move in or on water [verb (intransitive)] > swim > use specific stroke

to tread water1800

breaststroke1864

trudge1904

breast-stroke1909

dog-paddle1910

crawl1911

scissor-kick1921

freestyle1935

doggy-paddle1958

1935 News (Frederick, Maryland) 25 July 6/6 The former breast-stroked the distance in 5:44 while Borg free-styled it in 4:27.

1951 San Mateo (Calif.) Times 21 June 23/6 [He] got the four-night meet off to a flying start by free styling 200 meters in 2:08.8.

1988 Herald (Tasmania) (Nexis) 14 Jan. Making out he was freestyling while actually wading behind the rest of the team.

2005 J. Scheeres Jesus Land v. 90 Mary made it to four [feet]. She freestyles over.

b. intransitive. In skiing, skateboarding, etc.: to perform freestyle manoeuvres; to participate in a freestyle competition, event, or discipline. Cf. freestyle adj. 1b.

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society > leisure > sport > types of play, actions, or postures > [verb (intransitive)]

run1685

pike1956

freestyle1977

sandbag1985

1977 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 16 Feb. 24/1 Spina..has been skiing since he was four and freestyling since he was 14.

1980 Daily Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pa.) 25 Nov. 8/3 He freestyled his heart out before crowds that lined a city intersection.

1999 Unity Nov. 25/2 (caption) Freestyling on the concrete fullpipe.

2006 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 19 Feb. l1 The warmest..January since the first caveman hopped on a board and freestyled down a glacier.

2. intransitive. To rap improvisationally, typically with a rhythmic accompaniment; to perform a freestyle rap. Also occasionally transitive. Cf. freestyle n. 2.

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1990 Washington Post 29 July g5/2 Hammer had become a fixture on the..dance-club circuit, free-styling raps over prerecorded rhythm tracks.

1995 Grand Royal No. 2. 107/3 He just came in and freestyled over the music, and we took the best parts.

2000 W. Shaw Westsiders 97 Hip-hop fans..want him to freestyle, so he just starts rhyming to the beats they've put down for him.

2006 Sunday Mail (Nexis) 6 Aug. 30 Sway..freestyled over the last three jams.

Derivatives

ˈfreestyling n.

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1952 N.Y. Times 8 Apr. 38/3 It should add an individual medley..and free-styling at 200 and 800 meters.

1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 19 Feb. d7 Peterson says there is hope for an exhibition of freestyling at the 1984 Winter Olympics.

2004 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 5 Sept. 13 Jurassic 5 indulge in a bit of old school freestyling.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	freestyle
释义	freestyleadj.n. Brit. /ˈfriːstʌɪl/, U.S. /ˈfriˌstaɪl/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: free adj., style n. Etymology: < free adj. + style n. A. adj. 1. Sport. a. Of or designating a sporting event or competition in which the rules governing technique are relatively unrestrictive; spec. designating a swimming race in which each competitor is free to choose his or her style of stroke.The crawl stroke is often chosen in freestyle competitions. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [adjective] > other specific style judicial1532 heroic1590 judiciary1603 wild1645 heroi-comic1708 mock-heroic1708 heroi-comical1712 flebilea1734 prosai-comi-epic1749 lusory1779 sulphureous1791 harlequinic1804 mock-heroical1825 newspaperish1825 marmoreal1892 kailyard1895 freestyle1906 paperback1921 nouny1926 Time-ese1947 nounal1952 kitchen sink1959 effectist1961 writerly1974 dirty realist1984 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > swimming race > [adjective] > type of race freestyle1906 masters1972 1906 Fitchburg (Mass.) Daily Sentinel 25 Apr. 3/3 The free style discus throwing in the stadium, this morning, was won by Martin J. Sheridan. 1912 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily News 9 July 14/4 Lastorres, Australia, won the second heat in the semi-final of the 1,500 meter free style swimming race. 1950 Oxf. Junior Encycl. IX. 454/2 In free-style and breast-stroke races the competitors start with a dive. 1988 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 11 Feb. ix. 2 The women's 20K and 4x5K relay are freestyle races, meaning competitors may use the new, generally faster skating style [of Nordic skiing]. 2004 New Yorker 5 July 79/3 Coughlin swam the lead-off leg for Cal in the four-hundred-metre freestyle relay. b. Of or designating a sporting event, competition, or discipline emphasizing improvisation or personal expression, esp. through the execution of acrobatic manoeuvres or the performance of a unique individual routine. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [adjective] tournamental1801 freestyle1974 1974 N.Y. Times 15 Apr. 42/2 The Heavenly Valley skier..came in eighth in yesterday's free-style mogul event but his earlier showings in aerial acrobatics and ballet gave him top honors. 1976 J. Grant Skateboarding vi. 58 Judges at freestyle competitions usually penalize for a grounded toe. 1986 Rider Spring 35/1 Free-style dressage is like playing a cadenza—you have the freedom to compose a test and choose music to suit your horse. 2005 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 5 Feb. m2/6 In freestyle footbag..lone competitors execute athletic routines to the beat of techno, jungle, hip-hop and rock music. 2. Of a literary, musical, or artistic work or performance: = free adj. 10b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [adjective] > qualities of works generally wateryc1230 polite?a1500 meagre1539 over-laboured1579 bald1589 spiritless1592 light1597 meretricious1633 standing1661 effectual1662 airy1664 severe1665 correct1676 enervatea1704 free1728 classic1743 academic1752 academical1752 chaste1753 nerveless1763 epic1769 crude1786 effective1790 creative1791 soulless1794 mannered1796 manneristical1830 manneristic1837 subjective1840 inartisticala1849 abstract1857 inartistic1859 literary1900 period1905 atmospheric1908 dateless1908 atmosphered1920 non-naturalistic1925 self-indulgent1926 free-styled1933 soft-centred1935 freestyle1938 pseudish1938 decadent1942 post-human1944 kitschy1946 faux-naïf1958 spare1965 1938 Manch. Guardian Weekly 2 Sept. 188/3 Swing musicians..blaze away at a real ‘clambake’ (free-style swing playing). 1958 P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz x. 125 He helped to keep free-style jazz alive with his Clambake Seven. 1977 J. Wilton-Ely in S. Kostof Architect 202 From these origins were to emerge the ‘free-style’ concepts as developed by Norman Shaw and Charles Voysey in domestic design. 2001 R. Z. Rivera in Mambo Montage viii. 254 This redrawing of the realm of creative expression is reminiscent of freestyle music in the late 1980s, which pushed the bounds of New York Puerto Rican creativity. B. n. 1. Sport. a. A freestyle sporting event, competition, or discipline; a technique or method used in this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > types of all comersc1450 after-gamea1500 fore-game1594 revenge1616 plate1639 set-to1743 return match1753 bye1754 scrub-race1791 anybody's game (also race, match)1826 return1834 barney1843 bonspiel1858 handicap1861 pennant1865 home-and-home1868 benefit match1871 run-off1873 international1877 American tournament1878 Grand Prix1879 single1884 friendly1885 all-comers1889 pair1890 championship1893 round robin1894 replay1895 Olympiad1896 junior varsity1902 lightning tournament1903 rematch1903 road trip1903 pickup1905 freestyle1906 marathon1908 test1908 Derby1909 scrimmage1910 eliminator1911 twosome1911 triala1914 quadrangular1916 slug-fest1916 varsity match1921 needle contest1922 curtain jerker1923 needle match1923 open1926 needle fight1927 knock-out1928 shirt1930 masters1933 pro-amateur1934 tune-up1934 World Cup1934 pro-am1937 state1941 sizzler1942 runathon1943 mismatch1954 run-out1955 match-up1959 squeaker1961 triple-header1961 Super Bowl1967 invitational1968 needle game1970 major1976 slobberknocker1986 1906 N.Y. Times Mag. 21 Oct. 4/1 The generosity and hospitable spirit of the Greek Princes provided a contest in the ‘free style’, or more properly ‘no style’, in which they [sc. the Americans] easily excelled. 1932 Times 4 Feb. 5/4 The results were:—100 yards ladies' free-style.—Miss Bult (Victoria), 1. 1943 Ogden (Utah) Standard Examiner 28 Mar. 10 a Junior dance,..junior free-style and junior pairs. 1987 BMX Plus! Sept. 14/3 Freestyle is a way of life, limited not only to earthquakin', sky-shakin' radness, but also including maintaining the attitude that you don't always have to follow in anyone else's footsteps. 2002 J. Weyland Answer is Never iv. 43 The focus of skating at the time was known as flatland freestyle. b. Swimming. More fully freestyle stroke. Any of various strokes commonly used in freestyle events; (in later use) esp. the crawl stroke. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > [noun] > swimming > stroke > specific hand over hand1844 sidestroke1852 breast swimming1861 steamer1861 breaststroke1864 dog paddle1874 backstroke1876 trudgen1893 frog kick1896 overstroke1902 scissors kick1902 crawl1903 scissors1908 freestyle1916 doggy paddle1921 front crawl1924 back-crawl1929 butterfly stroke1934 butterfly1936 butterfly kick1937 1916 N.Y. Times 17 Jan. 13/4 [The four-beat single trudgeon crawl] features the double, alternate, over-water arm action off [read of] all the modern free-style strokes. 1967 Times 11 Sept. 3/5 He was in the water, using the freestyle stroke, for eight hours. 1987 T. Winton Blood & Water 75 Every stroke of her dogged freestyle was a blow, and with each swim she knew she was shifting more than her own weight. 2007 Daily News (Los Angeles) (Nexis) 3 May s7 I'm not as confident with my backstroke and my breaststroke as I am with my freestyle. 2. Originally U.S. An improvisational rap or rap song; improvisational rapping. ΚΠ 1983 N.Y. Times 28 Aug. 60/4 A ‘freestyle’, in which rapping emcees traded improvised rhymes in a verbal jam session..brought out members of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. 1992 Vibe Fall (Preview Issue) 58/1 Vinnie would do the human beat box as Treach dropped freestyle lyrics. 1995 Represent Apr.–May 33/1 To me anyone can come off the head with a rhyme, I don't consider that to be freestyle. 2000 Toronto Sun (Nexis) 24 Nov. 10 16 Bars, a freestyle from The Notorious B.I.G. 2004 M. M. Lewis Scars of Soul ii. ix. 162 Eventually the freestyle ends, as every MC knows. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). freestylev. Brit. /ˈfriːstʌɪl/, U.S. /ˈfriˌstaɪl/ Origin: Probably formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: freestyle adj.; freestyle n. Etymology: Probably partly < freestyle adj. and partly < freestyle n. Compare earlier freestyler n. Originally U.S. 1. Sport. a. transitive and intransitive. Swimming. To swim using a freestyle stroke (typically the crawl). Cf. freestyle n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > move in or on water [verb (intransitive)] > swim > use specific stroke to tread water1800 breaststroke1864 trudge1904 breast-stroke1909 dog-paddle1910 crawl1911 scissor-kick1921 freestyle1935 doggy-paddle1958 1935 News (Frederick, Maryland) 25 July 6/6 The former breast-stroked the distance in 5:44 while Borg free-styled it in 4:27. 1951 San Mateo (Calif.) Times 21 June 23/6 [He] got the four-night meet off to a flying start by free styling 200 meters in 2:08.8. 1988 Herald (Tasmania) (Nexis) 14 Jan. Making out he was freestyling while actually wading behind the rest of the team. 2005 J. Scheeres Jesus Land v. 90 Mary made it to four [feet]. She freestyles over. b. intransitive. In skiing, skateboarding, etc.: to perform freestyle manoeuvres; to participate in a freestyle competition, event, or discipline. Cf. freestyle adj. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of play, actions, or postures > [verb (intransitive)] run1685 pike1956 freestyle1977 sandbag1985 1977 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 16 Feb. 24/1 Spina..has been skiing since he was four and freestyling since he was 14. 1980 Daily Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pa.) 25 Nov. 8/3 He freestyled his heart out before crowds that lined a city intersection. 1999 Unity Nov. 25/2 (caption) Freestyling on the concrete fullpipe. 2006 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 19 Feb. l1 The warmest..January since the first caveman hopped on a board and freestyled down a glacier. 2. intransitive. To rap improvisationally, typically with a rhythmic accompaniment; to perform a freestyle rap. Also occasionally transitive. Cf. freestyle n. 2. ΚΠ 1990 Washington Post 29 July g5/2 Hammer had become a fixture on the..dance-club circuit, free-styling raps over prerecorded rhythm tracks. 1995 Grand Royal No. 2. 107/3 He just came in and freestyled over the music, and we took the best parts. 2000 W. Shaw Westsiders 97 Hip-hop fans..want him to freestyle, so he just starts rhyming to the beats they've put down for him. 2006 Sunday Mail (Nexis) 6 Aug. 30 Sway..freestyled over the last three jams. Derivatives ˈfreestyling n. ΚΠ 1952 N.Y. Times 8 Apr. 38/3 It should add an individual medley..and free-styling at 200 and 800 meters. 1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 19 Feb. d7 Peterson says there is hope for an exhibition of freestyling at the 1984 Winter Olympics. 2004 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 5 Sept. 13 Jurassic 5 indulge in a bit of old school freestyling. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1906v.1935
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