Definitions
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- noun figure skating A
move where the skater skates with theblades parallel , toes pointing in opposite directions.
Etymologies
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Named for Ina Bauer, a German figure skater who invented the move
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Examples
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She lost the title when she stepped out of the landing of her Ina Bauer into a double axel, and lost her spot on the world team when she two-footed the landing of her death drop and pretty much stopped spinning.
SI.com 2011
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"She was the first woman to do the splits in both directions, the first to proceed from an Ina Bauer into a double Axel and the first to do a side layback into a back layback," he writes.
The Georgia Straight - News And Views Charlie Smith 2010
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