freestyle

English

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Etymology

free + style

Noun

freestyle (uncountable)

1. A swimming event in which the contestants may choose any stroke.
2. (By extension) The swimming stroke commonly referred to as the front crawl or the Australian crawl.
3. A style of wrestling in which any non-injurious holds are permitted.
4. A sports event where competitors can choose their own method of participation.
5. A form of rapping in which the emcee makes up lyrics while rapping.
6. Modifying programming code in production and quality assurance environments, violating the existing procedures for promoting the same.
   • Note: also used as an adjective and adverb in all senses

Translations

swimming event

• Finnish: vapaauinti (fi)
• French: nage libre (fr) f
• Greek: ελεύθερο (el) (eléfthero)

• Hungarian: szabadúszás (hu)
• Portuguese: estilo livre (pt)

front crawl

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自由泳 (cmn) (zìyóuyǒng)

• Finnish: krooli (fi), vapaauinti (fi)
• French: nage libre (fr) f

• German: Freistilschwimmen (de) n, Freistil (de) m
• Hungarian: gyorsúszás (hu)
• Japanese: フリースタイル (ja) (furīsutairu)
• Maori: kau tāwhai (mi)
• Russian: вольный стиль (ru) (vólʹnyj stilʹ) m, фристайл (ru) (fristájl) m

style of wrestling

• Finnish: vapaapaini (fi)

sports event where competitors can choose their own method of participation

form of rapping

• Finnish: freestyle (fi)
• Polish: freestyle (pl) m, fristajl (pl) m

• Portuguese: freestyle (pt)

Verb

freestyle (third-person singular simple present freestyles, present participle freestyling, simple past and past participle freestyled)

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

Translations

to ad-lib in rap music

• Dutch: freestylen (nl)

• Polish: freestyle'ować (pl), fristajlować (pl)