western roll

noun

1. a technique in high-jumping in which the jumper executes a half-turn of the body to clear the bar

Example Sentences

That all changed one day when Virgil’s older brother came home and said he had to try a new technique called the western roll, in which the jumper puts their body horizontal to the bar and rolls over the top.

From Washington Times

Like the scissor technique, the western roll would eventually be replaced by a more efficient form, which high jumpers continue to use to this day: the Fosbury flop.

From Washington Times

In eastern Tennessee's McMinn County, on the western roll of the Blue Ridge Mountains, politics is played for keeps, right up to the gunstock.

From Time Magazine Archive

The handsome six-foot-one-incher started well back from the crossbar, hopped up momentum without his crutches, hurled himself over in a standard "western roll."

From Time Magazine Archive