Freestyle

Quick meaning: Freestyle is a noun meaning (sports) A sports event where competitors can choose their own method of participation.

Meaning

(sports) A sports event where competitors can choose their own method of participation.

More Meanings

1. (music) A form of rapping in which the emcee makes up lyrics while performing.
2. (by extension, attributive) Anything done in an improvised or unrestricted way.
3. (music) Ellipsis of Latin freestyle, a form of electronic dance music.
4. (intransitive, especially in rap music) To improvise one's own style; to ad-lib.
5. (intransitive) To improvise one's dance moves; dance freely.
6. (intransitive) To improvise something in an unrestricted way.

Example Sentences

Already a veteran DJ-producer on New York’s freestyle scene, 23-year-old Frankie Bones was flown to England for an Energy rave.

(While there are definitely a large number of Japanese cookbooks out there with detailed instructions and measurements, it was this freestyle cooking philosophy I most frequently encountered.)

And just hours after the famous golfer died in an airplane accident, I freestyled to a less talented rival, “Stop now before you get hurt / Your whole style should never take flight like Payne Stewart.”

In the world of hip hop, many freestyle artists have been known to speak, “Check one, check two!” into the microphone. The phrasing serves two purposes: (1) to put the freestyle artist on rhythm with the beat and (2) […]

Word Forms

• freestyles
• free-style
• freestyling
• freestyled

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