Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something that is easy and presents no difficulties, especially an easily won sports contest.
- noun A horserace with only one horse entered, won by the mere formality of walking the length of the track.
- noun A gymnastic feat in which the body is bent forward or backward from an upright position, the hands are placed on the floor, and the legs are arced one after the other over the hands to finish in a standing position.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
easy victory ; awalkaway . - noun tennis A
bye or victory awarded to acompetitor when ascheduled opponent fails to play agame . - noun A
horse race with only oneentrant . - noun Someone easy to
defeat . - noun gymnastics A
backbend combined with ahandstand . - noun A type of railroad
passenger car seat, having reversible seat backs that can be moved across the seat to face either direction of travel
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Examples
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I get nervous everytime the idea of a Welsh walkover is mentioned or implied.
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Hiestand: Even in walkover, Tiger gives CBS big ratings boost.
USATODAY.com 2006
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Because he says that they were both shot at the shoreline, and then he dragged his wife -- they both were shot at that point -- he dragged her up to the walkover, which is where you would walk over to get back to the highway.
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"From the first day of spring training to where we are now, nothing about this season has been easy or in any remote sense would be called a walkover," Scioscia said.
The Seattle Times 2008
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True, we did not know all this, but if any man on that ground besides Wood and Howard expected a "walkover" his must have been a singularly hopeful disposition.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 Ambrose Bierce 1878
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Wigan won't be any kind of walkover, I don't suppose any game is when you've got the jittery Almunia behind Sylvester, but we've got to go out and rise to the challenge.
Irish Blogs Arseblog 2010
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Motion capture instruments and videos of the sessions also helped to document slip outcomes ( "skate-over", "walkover" or "loss of balance") and falls.
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Motion capture instruments and videos of the sessions also helped to document slip outcomes ( "skate-over", "walkover" or "loss of balance") and falls.
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The Congress today gifted Sushma Swaraj a "walkover" in the Vidisha seat as the nomination papers of the party's candidate were rejected by the collector.
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Not unexpectedly, more and more of these "walkover"
The Online Citizen 2008
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