freestyle

English

Etymology

From free +‎ style.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹiːˌstaɪl/

Noun

freestyle (countable and uncountable, plural freestyles)

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
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

swimming event

• Bulgarian: свободен стил m (svoboden stil)
• Finnish: vapaauinti (fi)
• French: nage libre (fr) f
• Greek: ελεύθερο (el) (eléfthero)

• Hungarian: szabadúszás
• Italian: stile libero m, ginnastica a corpo libero
• Portuguese: estilo livre (pt)

front crawl

• Bulgarian: кроул m (kroul)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 自由式 (zi⁶ jau⁴ sik¹), 捷泳 (zit³ wing⁶)

  Mandarin: 自由泳 (zh) (zìyóuyǒng), 自由式 (zh) (zìyóushì), 捷泳 (jiéyǒng), 爬泳 (zh) (páyǒng) (mainland China)

  Min Nan: 掠篙泅 (zh-min-nan) (lia̍h-ko-siû), 搤跤泅 (iah-kha-siû), 仆水泅 (phak-chúi-siû), 自由式 (chū-iû-sek)

• Finnish: krooli (fi), vapaauinti (fi)
• French: nage libre (fr) f
• German: Freistilschwimmen n, Freistil (de) m

• Greek: ελεύθερο (el) (eléfthero)
• Hungarian: gyorsúszás (hu)
• Italian: bracciata libera
• Japanese: フリースタイル (furīsutairu)
• Maori: kau tāwhai, kau tāhoe
• Portuguese: crawl (pt) m
• Russian: во́льный стиль m (vólʹnyj stilʹ), фриста́йл (ru) m (fristájl)

style of wrestling

• Finnish: vapaapaini (fi)
• Greek: ελεύθερη (el) f (eléftheri)

• Portuguese: vale-tudo m

sports event where competitors can choose their own method of participation

• Finnish: freestyle (fi)

form of rapping

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

• Portuguese: freestyle (pt)

Verb

freestyle (third-person singular simple present freestyles, present participle freestyling, simple 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.

Translations

to ad-lib in rap music

• Dutch: freestylen (nl)
• Greek: αυτοσχεδιάζω (el) (aftoschediázo)

• Maori: ohia
• Polish: freestyle'ować, fristajlować

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfriːˌst̪ɑil/
• Hyphenation: free‧style

Noun

freestyle

1. freestyle (sports event in which the participants can choose their own style, especially freestyle skiing)
2. freestyle (style of rapping)

Usage notes

• As is the case with many loanwords, the inflection of this term is problematic. Kotus recommends "nalle" - category in writing, as shown above, but in speech the declension usually follows "risti" -category as if the word were spelled friistaili.

Declension

Inflection of freestyle (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative		freestyle	freestylet
genitive		freestylen	freestylejen
partitive		freestyleä	freestylejä
illative		freestyleen	freestyleihin
		singular	plural
nominative		freestyle	freestylet
accusative	nom.	freestyle	freestylet
	gen.	freestylen
genitive		freestylen	freestylejen freestyleinrare
partitive		freestyleä	freestylejä
inessive		freestylessä	freestyleissä
elative		freestylestä	freestyleistä
illative		freestyleen	freestyleihin
adessive		freestylellä	freestyleillä
ablative		freestyleltä	freestyleiltä
allative		freestylelle	freestyleille
essive		freestylenä	freestyleinä
translative		freestyleksi	freestyleiksi
instructive		—	freestylein
abessive		freestylettä	freestyleittä
comitative		—	freestyleineen

Synonyms

• (freestyle skiing): freestylehiihto

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Portuguese

Noun

freestyle m (uncountable)

1. freestyle (form of rapping)

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Spanish

Noun

freestyle m (uncountable)

1. freestyle

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹiːstajl/
• With a more or less English accent.

Noun

freestyle c

1. A walkman, a portable audio cassette player.
   • 1997, Annika Thor, Sanning eller konsekvens, Bonnier Carlsen (publ., 2009 ed.).

     En freestyle är ju en ganska dyr sak, en sån som man inte köper själv för månadspengen.

     A walkman is as we all know a pretty expensive thing; you don't buy one of those by yourself from your monthly pocket money.

Declension

Declension of freestyle
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	freestyle	freestyleen	freestylear	freestylearna
Genitive	freestyles	freestyleens	freestylears	freestylearnas