How to Use toe loop in a Sentence

toe loop

noun
  • The edge jumps are the loop, the salchow and the axel, while the toe jumps are the toe loop, the flip and the lutz.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Fans don’t need to know a Lutz from a Salchow or a loop from a toe loop to be engaged by men’s skating at the Olympics.
    New York Times, 2 Jan. 2018
  • Chen, the 2017 U.S. champion, put her hand down on her opening triple lutz and skipped the second part, a triple toe loop.
    Helene Elliott, latimes.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Chen is the first to land five different types of quads in competition; the loop, toe loop, salchow, flip and lutz.
    Dave Skretta, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Tennell went down during her a triple toe loop after landing a triple lutz.
    Tess Koman, Cosmopolitan, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Back home, once everyone had left the rink for the day, Browning started trying a quad toe loop in secret.
    Ben Cohen, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Performers must make landing a quadruple toe loop look like a lark.
    Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Tennell fell on the second part of her triple lutz-triple toe loop combination.
    Helene Elliott, latimes.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Chan stumbled on his opening quadruple toe loop and spent almost as much time sitting on the ice as skating on it.
    Helene Elliott, latimes.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Here’s your cheat sheet for telling six figure skating jumps apart during the Winter Olympics, from an axel to a toe loop, salchow and lutz jump.
    Alice Park, Time, 8 Feb. 2018
  • The jumps are household names, at least in figure skating households: salchow, axel, lutz, loop, flip and toe loop.
    Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Alexandra Trusova is the second woman to land that jump and has successfully landed the quad lutz, flip, and toe loop.
    Joyce Rubin, Vogue, 15 Feb. 2022
  • One of the six figure skating jumps (along with the flip, loop, toe loop, lutz, and salchow — more on them to come) but the only one that requires the skater to jump into the air while facing forward.
    Maura Sullivan Hill, Cosmopolitan, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Bell, who is coached by 2018 Olympian Adam Rippon, hit a triple flip-triple toe loop combination early in her program and rode that momentum the rest of the way.
    Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Messing fell on his quadruple toe loop — his second jump of the night — but later added in a clean quad toe in combination with a double toe.
    Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Jan. 2018
  • Skaters should be mathematically able to do a quint Salchow or toe loop.
    Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Skating to the music of Elton John, Chen put on a masterful performance that included a quad flip and triple toe loop, a quad flip, and a triple axel.
    NBC News, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Tennell, a 20-year-old jumping machine, held onto a poor landing on the opening jump of her combination, the triple lutz, but then fell trying the triple toe loop.
    Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Bell, 25, landed the triple flip-triple toe loop that had been causing her problems all week in practice, and then ramped up the energy inside frigid Bridgestone Arena.
    Dave Skretta, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Fellow American Amber Glenn delivered the program of the afternoon for third place, hitting a triple flip-triple toe loop to score a 68.42.
    Kat Cornetta, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Hazel Collier finished second in the short program with a score of 52.54 after landing a triple Lutz-triple toe loop combination.
    BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Valieva botched her first four jumps, and later fell while attempting a quad toe loop, finishing fifth in the long program and dropping out of medal contention.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Male figure skaters have been landing quadruple jumps since 1988, when Canada's Kurt Browning first pulled off a quad toe loop at the world championships in Budapest.
    Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Messing made up for an early fall on a four-revolution toe loop by adding in an unplanned quadruple jump later in his program.
    Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Jan. 2018
  • During Thursday's short program, Bell landed a triple flip-triple toe loop and won with a score of 75.55, the Associated Press reported.
    Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE.com, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Chen has successfully landed five types of quad in competition: toe loop, loop, Salchow, flip, and Lutz.
    Joyce Rubin, Vogue, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Despite its open-toe, breathable style, the Cairn Adventure is incredibly secure thanks to four 0.75-inch straps and a plugless toe loop.
    Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2022
  • Whirling into the Axels, Lutzes, Salchows, toe loops and flips, a skater suddenly tumbles down -- Smack! -- scrambles to her feet, leaving four years of dreams in pieces on the rink, plasters a smile on her face, and catches up to the music.
    Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Currently the quad lutz, which Chen effortlessly combined with a triple toe loop late in Thursday’s performance, is the most difficult jump in skating.
    Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Feb. 2022
  • It’s been a century since the six core kinds of figure skating jumps were established: toe loop, salchow, loop, flip, lutz and, of course, the axel, which demands another 180 degrees of rotation in the air on entry.
    Ben Cohen, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2022

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