axel

noun

ax·el ˈak-səl

ˈäk-

often capitalized

: a jump in figure skating from the outer forward edge of one skate with 1¹/₂ turns taken in the air and a return to the outer backward edge of the other skate

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Meanwhile, 24-year-old Amber Glenn won her first national women’s title, overcoming a couple of mistakes with a majestic triple axel to become the first openly LGBTQ+ athlete to win a U.S. women’s title. —

USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024 The 4-foot-11 14-year-old falls on her opening jump, a double axel, but lands six triple jumps, three in combination, in her program. —

Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024 So instead of just doing an axel, for example, he’s encouraged me to do an axel with both arms over my head. —

Didi Gluck, Vogue, 7 Dec. 2023 Women traditionally did not attempt quads, which call for four full rotations in midair; their hardest jump was the triple axel, so risky that only three women—Midori Ito and Mao Asada of Japan, and Mirai Nagasu of the U.S.—had landed it successfully at the Olympics. —

Joyce Rubin, Vogue, 15 Feb. 2022 See all Example Sentences for axel