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A marathon participant running backwards. Backward running, also known as backwards running, running backwards, reverse running, retro running, or retro locomotion is the act of running in reverse, so that one travels in the direction one's back is facing rather than one's front.
Tower running, Stair climbing, Backward running Thomas Dold (born September 10, 1984, in Wolfach , Baden-Württemberg ) is a German track and field and extreme athlete and a tower runner , stair runner , world-record holding champion backwards runner .
I Hate Running Backwards is a shoot 'em up game and a spin-off in the Serious Sam series. [1] [2] The screen continuously scrolls vertically, as the player character runs backwards towards the top of the screen. [3] They traverse procedurally generated levels of five thematic environments, occasionally using vehicles. The player can freely move ...
Ferdie Ato Adoboe (born 1964) is a Ghanaian athlete who set a Guinness World Record in 1983 for running backwards.He is also a practitioner of speed juggling, the act of kicking a soccer ball in the air as many times as possible in a short period of time.
In the fifth inning of the June 23 game against the Philadelphia Phillies, Piersall hit the 100th home run of his career, off Phillies pitcher Dallas Green. He ran around the bases in the correct order but facing backwards as he made the circuit.
Running can assist people in losing weight, staying in shape and improving body composition. Research suggests that the person of average weight will burn approximately 100 calories per mile run. [61] Running increases one's metabolism, even after running; one will continue to burn an increased level of calories for a short time after the run. [62]
Oh no, you're playing the record backward. Watch out, you might ruin your needle." [4] A reversed message in Fred Schneider's voice, starting at the 4:35 mark. Quoted in Patterson (2004): "The B-52s used the same approach at subliminal humor by placing a backward track on 'Detour Through Your Mind' from the LP Bouncing off the Satellites. When ...
The word anadrome comes from Greek anádromos (ἀνάδρομος), "running backward", and can be compared to palíndromos (παλίνδρομος), "running back again" (whence palindrome).