roundhouse

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He left the Air Force in 1962 and set up a martial arts studio in Los Angeles, finding his calling in teaching and delivering roundhouse kicks.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

Encircling the footprint of each roundhouse were "middens," haloes of rubbish dumped from the stilt village above, included broken pots, butchered animal bone, and "coprolites" or fossilised faeces.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024

In the third quarter, he picked off a Washington pass and went in for an uncontested roundhouse dunk.

From Washington Times • Nov. 1, 2023

Karefa-Johnson chimed in just after midnight Wednesday, writing in her Instagram stories, “Today literally said ‘Hiiiii-yah” ... *roundhouse kick to the face, very Mortal Kombat.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2022

He broke his wrists again just as the ball came in and threw a roundhouse swing that skied the ball and then curved it foul into the third-base trees.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt