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Synonyms for backflip

  • noun

Most common

flip-flop volte-face backpedaling somersault

All synonyms

Noun

1. Backpedaling — A total reversal in policy or opinion

backpedaling, volte-face, flip-flop

Other

somersault

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A total reversal in policy or opinion.

    PM predicts water recycling backflips

Related words

Is a kind of
flip move movement

Forms

Plural
backflips → backpedalings, volte-faces, flip-flops, somersaults…

Example sentences

  • backpedaling They are frenetically backpedaling.
  • somersault A somersault gone wrong landed Tom in the hospital.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
backflipsteady
backpedalingrising
somersaultrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

10 letters
somersault3
12 letters
backpedaling4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (somersault3 = 3 syllables).