back straddle vault

noun

: a gymnastics straddle vault in which the performer passes the left leg over the right side of the buck or horse and the right leg over the left side and clears the apparatus backward to land in a position the reverse of the starting position

Word History

First Known Use

1948, in the meaning defined above

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