lunge
n.a long, quick step forward with one leg while you bend your body. You often see this in dance or when someone is trying to reach something.
n.a long, quick step forward with one leg, typically involving a bending of the body. Often used in the context of dance or physical movement.
“The dancer took a long lunge toward the mirror.”
“During the yoga class, the instructor demonstrated a deep lunge to stretch the hamstrings.”
“The athlete's sudden lunge toward the ball was so quick that the referee had no time to blow the whistle before the play was over.”
“An African bullfrog lunges for a babul butterfly but misses.”
From French allonge, from Old French alonge, from alongier, from Vulgar Latin *allongare, from ad + Late Latin longare, from Latin longus. Doublet of allonge.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.