English
freestyle
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈfɹiːˌstaɪl/
Noun

freestyle

  1. A sports event where competitors can choose their own method of participation.
    1. (swimming) A swimming event in which the contestants may choose any stroke.
      1. (swimming, by extension) The swimming stroke commonly referred to as the front crawl or the Australian crawl.
    2. (skiing) A cross-country skiing event in which the competitors may choose any style of skiing.
      1. (skiing, by extension) The skiing style commonly referred to as skating.
    3. (wrestling) A style of wrestling in which any non-injurious holds are permitted.
  2. (skiing) Ellipsis of freestyle skiing#English|freestyle skiing
  3. A form of rapping in which the emcee makes up lyrics while rapping.
  4. Modifying programming code in production and quality assurance environments, violating the existing procedures for deploying it.
Translations Translations
  • French: nage libre
  • German: Freistilschwimmen, Freistil
  • Italian: bracciata libera
  • Portuguese: crawl
  • Russian: во́льный стиль
Translations
  • Portuguese: vale-tudo
Translations Verb

freestyle (freestyles, present participle freestyling; past and past participle freestyled)

  1. (intransitive, especially in rap music) To improvise one's own style; to ad-lib.
  2. (intransitive) To improvise one's dance moves; dance freely.


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