axel

[ ak-suhl ]

nounFigure Skating.
  1. a jump performed by a skater leaping from the front outer edge of one skate into the air to make 1½ rotations of the body and landing on the back outer edge of the other skate.

Origin of axel

1
First recorded in 1925–30; after Axel Paulsen (1855–1938), Norwegian figure skater, who popularized the maneuver

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Axel
[ ak-suhl ]

noun
  1. a male given name.

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British Dictionary definitions for axel

axel

/ (ˈæksəl) /


noun
  1. skating a jump in which the skater takes off from the forward outside edge of one skate, makes one and a half, two and a half, or three and a half turns in the air, and lands on the backward outside edge of the other skate

Origin of axel

1
C20: named after Axel Paulsen (died 1938), Norwegian skater

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