Backstretch

Quick meaning: Backstretch is a noun meaning (horse racing) An area next to a racetrack used to stable the racehorses and house employees.

Meaning

(horse racing) An area next to a racetrack used to stable the racehorses and house employees.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) The middle part of an event.
2. (exercise) An exercise that stretches the muscles of the back.
3. (firefighting) The laying of a supply line from the region of the fire backwards toward the water source.
4. (firefighting) To lay a supply line from the region of the fire backwards toward the water source.
5. (athletics, horse racing, car racing) Synonym of back straight (“straight part of a racetrack, running track, etc., opposite the finishing line”).

Example Sentences

I went over to the other bed and lay down. My knees were hanging over the side of the bed, providing me with a fairly decent back stretch. With my eyes closed, I could hear sleep calling.

I'd decrypted his puzzle easily enough. He'd left it in Zykovski six-gen, a function he knew I could deconstruct, and the pages of slipbeacon data that unfolded had led me here: an abandoned energy plant on another mined-out rock somewhere in the cold backstretches of Imperial space.

When I was a kid here, growing up in the Palouse River, we never met people from other cultures or countries. There on the racetracks and backstretches in England I met people from all over the world. Everyone came together to own the horses, to work the horses and to watch them race.

This was a day almost fifty years since the time I was supposed to run in the 4 by 100-meter Olympic relay. I was standing on the track in the imposing, empty Olympic Stadium in Berlin. […] I walked down into the well of the vast, brooding stadium, and then along the backstretch of the red clay running oval.

Word Forms

• backstretches
• back stretch
• back-stretch
• backstretching
• backstretched

Synonyms for backstretch

Depending on context, synonyms include backside.

Antonyms for backstretch

Common opposites include frontstretch, homestretch.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stretch, homestretch, backstraightaway, backbend, backcast, trackout.

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