sal|chow

sal|chow
sal|chow «SAL kov», noun.
a jump in figure skating in which the skater leaps from the inside back edge of one skate, rotates in the air, and lands on the outside back edge of the other skate: »

With all the confidence of a champion, long-legged Tenley glided out to begin her free skating—the difficult double loops and axels and double salchows of her own devising (Time).

[< Ulrich Salchow, a skater after whom the jump was named]

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