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rest step

rest step noun: a method of walking uphill in which the walker rests on their back leg briefly between each step.

Noun

rest step

  1. A method of walking uphill in which the walker rests on their back leg briefly between each step.
    • I meet the others at our first resting point, maybe 40 minutes later, exhausted and out of breath. Bets teaches me the rest step, resting weight briefly on the back foot with each ste. We snack — we start again — the rest step helps — a little — I need a breath with each step and a longer and...1982 February 13, Lee Swislow, “Amazon Trekking”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 9

Questions about rest step

What does rest step mean?
Rest step means a method of walking uphill in which the walker rests on their back leg briefly between each step.
What part of speech is rest step?
Rest step is a noun.

Words near rest step in the dictionary

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