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Definitions for kicking
kick·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. kick, kickingnoun

    a rhythmic thrusting movement of the legs as in swimming or calisthenics

    "the kick must be synchronized with the arm movements"; "the swimmer's kicking left a wake behind him"

  2. kick, boot, kickingnoun

    the act of delivering a blow with the foot

    "he gave the ball a powerful kick"; "the team's kicking was excellent"

Wiktionary

  1. kickingnoun

    The action of the verb to kick.

    In boxing, kicking one's opponent is not allowed.

  2. kickingnoun

    A violent assault involving repeated kicks.

    The bullies pushed the boy over and gave him a kicking.

  3. kickingadjective

    (often kickin') Terrific, great (of clothes) smart, fashionable.

  4. kickingadjective

    Alive, active (especially in the phrase alive and kicking)

    still kicking at 89

Wikipedia

  1. kicking

    A kick is a physical strike using the leg, in unison usually with an area of the knee or lower using the foot, heel, tibia (shin), ball of the foot, blade of the foot, toes or knee (the latter is also known as a knee strike). This type of attack is used frequently by hooved animals as well as humans in the context of stand-up fighting. Kicks play a significant role in many forms of martial arts, such as capoeira, kalaripayattu, karate, kickboxing, kung fu, MMA, Muay thai, pankration, pradal serey, savate, sikaran, silat, taekwondo, vovinam, and Yaw-Yan. Kicks are a universal act of aggression among humans. Kicking is also prominent from its use in many sports, especially those called football. The best known of these sports is association football, also known as soccer.

ChatGPT

  1. Kicking

    Kicking generally refers to the act of striking or hitting something with the foot, usually for the purpose of propelling an object or inflicting force or damage. It is a physical action commonly used in sports, martial arts, self-defense, and various other activities that involve the use of the feet as a means of attack or propulsion.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Kicking

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  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'kicking' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4693

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of kicking in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of kicking in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of kicking in a Sentence

  1. Jimmy Walker:

    It was a great week, i think I learned a lot. I know it's such a cliché to say that kind of( stuff), but I feel like I learned. You've got to. You've to at least try to take something away from it instead of just kicking the dirt.

  2. Mick Fanning:

    I was just sitting there and I felt something just get stuck in my leg rope, and I was kicking trying to get it away, i punched him in the back.

  3. Bjorn Gunnarsson:

    We're ending the era of foreign demonstration voyages that were promoted by Russia. Now it seems that reality is kicking in, many projections of foreign interest were over-optimistic.

  4. Notre Dame:

    We needed 11. We needed double digits, and I thought when we got going in the second half... we were going to have to drive. That's why we went four guards the second half. We were driving and kicking. And we had to make 11 or 12( 3s) to win.

  5. Ari Vatanen:

    The first car came at two o'clock in the morning and time stopped there in my life, the first car was a white Volvo 544 and it came with the drum brakes red hot and it was kicking up the dust... that stuff absolutely took my breath away and my body stayed on that bank in that luminous summer night but my mind went with the car.

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