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Definitions of gainer in various dictionaries:
noun - a person who gains weight
noun - a person who gains (gains an advantage or gains profits)
noun - a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward to complete a full backward somersault and enters the water feet first and facing away from the diving board
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| Someone who profits, or a backwards somersault that lands feet first into the water |
| In diving this maneuver is also known as a reverse or backwards somersault |
| A diver can perform a full or half this |
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| One that gains: a gainer of weight. |
| A bgainerb is the acrobatic trick of performing a backwards somersault while still moving forward. In diving, this is known as reverse rotation (as opposed to front, back, or inward). |
| something or someone that is in a better position or has more value at the end of a process: |
| Sports A dive in which the diver leaves the board facing forward, does a back somersault, and enters the water feet first. |
| a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward to complete a full backward somersault and enters the water feet first and facing away from the diving board |
| a person who gains (gains an advantage or gains profits) |
| a person who gains weight |
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A gainer is the acrobatic trick of performing a backwards somersault while still moving forward. In diving, this is known as reverse rotation (as opposed to front, back, or inward). Many stunt performers and martial artists are capable of performing a similar skill on the ground, sometimes in combination with a midair inverted kick. * A half gainer involves the same motion, except the ending position is with the head downward. A half gainer can also be performed starting with walking on the hands and ending with the head upwards, although this is quite difficult. * In gymnastics, the maneuver is performed while standing on the side of a balance beam by kicking one foot forwards while flipping backwards.A professional wrestling move called a shooting star press is very similar to a gainer, as it involves a wrestler performing a variation of a gainer from a standing position, onto an opponent (causing the wrestler to land chest first). This maneuver has many variations, ranging from differe |
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