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# footwork

«footwork» in Mova's school dictionary: **The way a person moves their feet, especially in sports…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (footwork, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The way a person moves their feet, especially in sports and dancing, as in «good footwork». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footwork/#m1)

2) (informal) Clever, quick actions to get out of a difficult situation, as in «some fancy footwork». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footwork/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In PE and sport, coaches train footwork for football, tennis, boxing, netball and dancing; quick footwork helps you dodge and balance. In stories and the news, «nifty footwork» can mean clever ways of avoiding trouble or difficult questions.

### examples

- The striker's quick footwork fooled the defender. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footwork/#x1)
- In netball, footwork rules say you can't run with the ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footwork/#x2)
- Our dance teacher made us practise the footwork slowly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footwork/#x3)
- Boxers skip rope to improve their footwork. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footwork/#x4)
- With some fancy footwork, he got out of doing the washing up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footwork/#x5)
- Good footwork helps you keep your balance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footwork/#x6)

### note

Uncountable: «good footwork», not «a footwork». One word. In netball, «footwork» is also the name of a rule about stepping with the ball.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «footwork» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footwork/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.