1. backswing - Noun
2. backswing - Verb
backswing (plural backswings)
(sports) The preparatory stroke preceding that which produces contact with the target. Normally associated with sports using an implement such as a bat, club, racket or stick.
Antonym: follow through
backswing (third-person singular simple present backswings, present participle backswinging, simple past and past participle backswung)
To swing backward.
Sometimes my backswing gets long, and I get in bad positions. The club also can get behind me coming down, so I have to flip my hands to catch up to my body. Louis Oosthuizen
My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two. Rory McIlroy
And the fact that Woods can swing in excess of 120 mph, but his clubshaft isn't parallel to the ground at the top, proves that you don't need a long, unwieldy backswing to generate real power. Source: Internet
Bengough accordingly stepped back to avoid being struck by Cobb's backswing. Source: Internet
She took a giant backswing, and this gave fans a view of her ample cleavage in her low-cut outfit. Source: Internet
Flip When a player tries to attack a ball that has not bounced beyond the edge of the table, the player does not have the room to wind up in a backswing. Source: Internet