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half-turn

[haf-turn, hahf-]

noun

  1. a 180-degree turn; a direct reversal of direction or orientation, as from front to back or left to right.



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He could take the ball on the half-turn from defence and drive up the pitch.

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Andrade’s Cheng vault — a roundoff onto the board with a half-turn onto the table and a one-and-a-half twist in the air — regularly scores better than Biles’ performance of the same skill as Andrade tends to pop more vertically off the table while Biles covers more horizontal ground.

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There are too many occasions where I've seen him flying into tackles when his opponent is on the half-turn; Tarkowski takes advantage of the situation by making his challenge dangerously heavy.

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In United's midfield I've watched Sofyan Amrabat closely in the past couple of games - I was at Old Trafford to see them play Bournemouth and Bayern - and he is not a player who gets the ball on the half-turn and starts off passing moves.

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The strike off a half-turn in the box was disallowed after VAR showed Heber was offside.

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