freestyle
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
freestyle (countable and uncountable, plural freestyles)
- A sports event where competitors can choose their own method of participation.
- (swimming) A swimming event in which the contestants may choose any stroke.
- (swimming, by extension) The swimming stroke commonly referred to as the front crawl or the Australian crawl.
- (skiing) A cross-country skiing event in which the competitors may choose any style of skiing.
- (wrestling) A style of wrestling in which any non-injurious holds are permitted.
- (swimming) A swimming event in which the contestants may choose any stroke.
- (skiing) Ellipsis of freestyle skiing.
- A form of rapping in which the emcee makes up lyrics while rapping.
- Modifying programming code in production and quality assurance environments, violating the existing procedures for deploying it.
Translations
swimming event
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front crawl
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style of wrestling
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sports event where competitors can choose their own method of participation
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form of rapping
Verb
freestyle (third-person singular simple present freestyles, present participle freestyling, simple past and past participle freestyled)
- (intransitive, especially in rap music) To improvise one's own style; to ad-lib.
- (intransitive) To improvise one's dance moves; dance freely.
Translations
to ad-lib in rap music
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Finnish
Pronunciation
Noun
freestyle
- freestyle (sports event in which the participants can choose their own style, especially freestyle skiing)
- 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) | ||||
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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 freestylein rare | ||
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 | ||
abessive | freestylettä | freestyleittä | ||
instructive | — | freestylein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
- (freestyle skiing): freestylehiihto
Portuguese
Noun
freestyle m (uncountable)
- freestyle (form of rapping)
Spanish
Pronunciation
Noun
freestyle m (uncountable)
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
freestyle c
- 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.
- 1997, Annika Thor, Sanning eller konsekvens, Bonnier Carlsen (publ., 2009 ed.).
Declension
Declension of freestyle | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | freestyle | freestyleen | freestylear | freestylearna |
Genitive | freestyles | freestyleens | freestylears | freestylearnas |
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- English 2-syllable words
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- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Swimming
- en:Skiing
- en:Wrestling
- English ellipses
- English verbs
- English intransitive verbs
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish nalle-type nominals
- Portuguese lemmas
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- Portuguese uncountable nouns
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- Spanish 2-syllable words
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- Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation
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