noun
lutz
luhts
noun
1
In figure skating, a jump where the skater takes off from the back outside edge of one skate, turns counterclockwise in the air, and lands on the back outside edge of the other skate.
"She landed a clean triple lutz in the final round."
"The lutz is considered one of the harder jumps to master because the takeoff edge fights the direction of rotation."
How to Use Lutz
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA tricky figure-skating jump named after the skater who first did it.
Common pairings
triple lutz
land a lutz
lutz jump
Word Forms
lutzes plural, lutzes plural, Lutzes plural
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Etymology
Named after the Austrian skater Alois Lutz, credited with inventing the jump in the early 1910s.