toe pick
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“I hit my toe pick after I threw her,” Michael Marinaro of Canada said after precisely that happened during their calamitous short program at the Olympics on Friday night, “and I fell on my face.”
From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2022
For toe pick jumps, you’re sort of vaulting off the toe pick to pop up.
From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2022
Depending on whether it’s a toe pick jump or an edge jump, the movement patterns they do to get that vertical velocity will differ.
From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2022
Who knows what might have happened if not for a stray blade or a toe pick?
From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2022
Upon finishing, he grabbed a bucket of ice shavings and repaired the divots in the ice that he had created with his toe pick when he pushed off for his jumps.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2019
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