Freestyle
noun
A style of swimming where you can use any stroke.
He decided to compete in the freestyle event at the swimming competition
Often appears as...
- freestyle relay
- freestyle event
noun
A type of rap where the words are improvised, or made up on the spot.
He impressed the crowd with his freestyle rap skills.
Often appears as...
- freestyle battle
- freestyle session
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Colloquial
noun
A type of competition in sports such as skiing or cycling where the athletes can choose their own moves or path.
The snowboarder performed an incredible jump during the freestyle event.
Often appears as...
- freestyle event
- freestyle skiing
noun
A style of swimming where you can use any stroke.
He decided to compete in the freestyle event at the swimming competition
Often appears as...
- freestyle relay
- freestyle event
noun
A type of rap where the words are improvised, or made up on the spot.
He impressed the crowd with his freestyle rap skills.
Often appears as...
- freestyle battle
- freestyle session
Usage tips
Colloquial
noun
A type of competition in sports such as skiing or cycling where the athletes can choose their own moves or path.
The snowboarder performed an incredible jump during the freestyle event.
Often appears as...
- freestyle event
- freestyle skiing
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Swimming Flexibility
Freestyle in swimming means you can choose any swim stroke, offering flexibility in competitions.
In the freestyle relay, each swimmer chose a different stroke.
Pro Tip 2/3Dominant Stroke
Despite 'any stroke', freestyle races are usually swum using the front crawl because it's fastest.
She swam the 100m freestyle using the dominant front crawl.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Free
In medley swimming events, 'freestyle' excludes backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly.
He swam the medley, finishing with freestyle, but he couldn't use butterfly.
Pro Tip 1/3Swimming Flexibility
Freestyle in swimming means you can choose any swim stroke, offering flexibility in competitions.
In the freestyle relay, each swimmer chose a different stroke.
Pro Tip 2/3Dominant Stroke
Despite 'any stroke', freestyle races are usually swum using the front crawl because it's fastest.
She swam the 100m freestyle using the dominant front crawl.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Free
In medley swimming events, 'freestyle' excludes backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly.
He swam the medley, finishing with freestyle, but he couldn't use butterfly.
Pro Tip 1/3Swimming Flexibility
Freestyle in swimming means you can choose any swim stroke, offering flexibility in competitions.
In the freestyle relay, each swimmer chose a different stroke.
Pro Tip 2/3Dominant Stroke
Despite 'any stroke', freestyle races are usually swum using the front crawl because it's fastest.
She swam the 100m freestyle using the dominant front crawl.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Free
In medley swimming events, 'freestyle' excludes backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly.
He swam the medley, finishing with freestyle, but he couldn't use butterfly.
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Are athletes really...
Clearly, athletes have gotten more savvy about performance-enhancing drugs as well, and that's made a difference in some sports at some times, but technology has made a difference in all sports, from faster skis to lighter shoes. Take a look at the record for the 100-meter freestyle swim.
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How Hip Hop taught my...
share an extemporaneous freestyle or newly written ideas over a beat the goal is to exhibit mastery lyrical and rhetorical dexterity sometimes using the African diasporic tradition of signifying so every semester for some years now I've taught these fundamental
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Pop an ollie and...
new terrain and again this is undergirding layer of influence of freestyle it made me fall that one that's like the hardest thing I've ever done okay look at that it's a dark slide see how it's sliding on the backside those are super fun and actually not
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Your brain on improv -...
what you do you have a freestyle artist come in and memorize a rap that you write for them they've never heard before and then you have them freestyle so I told my lab members that I would rap for Ted and they said yo you won't so and then I thought
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Rodney Mullen: Pop an...
So, humbling as it was, I began again. Here are some tricks that I started to bring to that new terrain. And again, there's this undergirding layer of influence of freestyle -- Oh, that one? That's, like, the hardest thing I've ever done.
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Bush Engineering PIPE Port...
dead trees Sam's home is living proof of his rare ingenuity it's been one born of the time as you can see I still have boards to fasten down I don't generally draw too many plans up for anything I'm kind of a freestyle type guy
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Béatrice Coron: Stories...
so it makes a very freestyle architecture. And I'm making all those kinds of windows. So it's to look beyond the surface. It's to have a look at different worlds. And very often I've been an outsider.
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How art gives shape to...
seems incredibly prescient totally important to this end the specific project that has made this possible for me is a series of exhibitions all titled with an F freestyle frequency and flow
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Erik Brynjolfsson: The...
But today a computer is no longer the world chess champion. Neither is a human, because Kasparov organized a freestyle tournament where teams of humans and computers could work together,
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The key to growth? Race...
Grandmaster replied I'd bring a hammer but today a computer is no longer the world chess champion neither is a human because Kasparov organized a freestyle
Video examples
Are athletes really...
Clearly, athletes have gotten more savvy about performance-enhancing drugs as well, and that's made a difference in some sports at some times, but technology has made a difference in all sports, from faster skis to lighter shoes. Take a look at the record for the 100-meter freestyle swim.
Video examples
How Hip Hop taught my...
share an extemporaneous freestyle or newly written ideas over a beat the goal is to exhibit mastery lyrical and rhetorical dexterity sometimes using the African diasporic tradition of signifying so every semester for some years now I've taught these fundamental
Video examples
Pop an ollie and...
new terrain and again this is undergirding layer of influence of freestyle it made me fall that one that's like the hardest thing I've ever done okay look at that it's a dark slide see how it's sliding on the backside those are super fun and actually not
Video examples
Your brain on improv -...
what you do you have a freestyle artist come in and memorize a rap that you write for them they've never heard before and then you have them freestyle so I told my lab members that I would rap for Ted and they said yo you won't so and then I thought
Video examples
Rodney Mullen: Pop an...
So, humbling as it was, I began again. Here are some tricks that I started to bring to that new terrain. And again, there's this undergirding layer of influence of freestyle -- Oh, that one? That's, like, the hardest thing I've ever done.
Video examples
Bush Engineering PIPE Port...
dead trees Sam's home is living proof of his rare ingenuity it's been one born of the time as you can see I still have boards to fasten down I don't generally draw too many plans up for anything I'm kind of a freestyle type guy
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Béatrice Coron: Stories...
so it makes a very freestyle architecture. And I'm making all those kinds of windows. So it's to look beyond the surface. It's to have a look at different worlds. And very often I've been an outsider.
Video examples
How art gives shape to...
seems incredibly prescient totally important to this end the specific project that has made this possible for me is a series of exhibitions all titled with an F freestyle frequency and flow
Video examples
Erik Brynjolfsson: The...
But today a computer is no longer the world chess champion. Neither is a human, because Kasparov organized a freestyle tournament where teams of humans and computers could work together,
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The key to growth? Race...
Grandmaster replied I'd bring a hammer but today a computer is no longer the world chess champion neither is a human because Kasparov organized a freestyle
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Lil Baby
American Musician
I don't really have a writing process. I don't write at all but, honestly, I feel like it's a modern-day writing because everything is technology and if I go in there and freestyle and I keep it, I feel like I wrote that. If I go in there and fix it, it's almost like something I wrote.
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Queen Latifah
American Musician
I've never been the straight rapper that is going to stand in a cipher and battle all day. I started off battle rapping, but to me, making songs became more important than freestyles... I've met many rappers who can freestyle but can't make a record.
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Roshon Fegan
American Actor
Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop.
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J.I.D
American Musician
I always loved hip-hop, being a black little kid. I always used to freestyle on the bus when I was young. It was always a part of my life.
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Luvvie Ajayi
Nigerian Author
Unless life is one giant rap battle, you don't need to freestyle your way to success.
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Johnny Weissmuller
American Actor
I never lost a freestyle race. Never. Not even in the YMCA.
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Felicity Jones
English Actress
I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
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Kodak Black
American Musician
I didn't just freestyle it. At the end, it's about bread.
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Pitbull
American Musician
I'm taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it.
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NLE Choppa
American Rapper
I freestyle all my music.
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Lil Baby
American Musician
I don't really have a writing process. I don't write at all but, honestly, I feel like it's a modern-day writing because everything is technology and if I go in there and freestyle and I keep it, I feel like I wrote that. If I go in there and fix it, it's almost like something I wrote.
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Queen Latifah
American Musician
I've never been the straight rapper that is going to stand in a cipher and battle all day. I started off battle rapping, but to me, making songs became more important than freestyles... I've met many rappers who can freestyle but can't make a record.
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Roshon Fegan
American Actor
Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop.
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J.I.D
American Musician
I always loved hip-hop, being a black little kid. I always used to freestyle on the bus when I was young. It was always a part of my life.
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Luvvie Ajayi
Nigerian Author
Unless life is one giant rap battle, you don't need to freestyle your way to success.
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Johnny Weissmuller
American Actor
I never lost a freestyle race. Never. Not even in the YMCA.
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Felicity Jones
English Actress
I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
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Kodak Black
American Musician
I didn't just freestyle it. At the end, it's about bread.
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Pitbull
American Musician
I'm taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it.
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NLE Choppa
American Rapper
I freestyle all my music.
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