belly flopping
Painful pool entry
Belly flopping is diving or jumping into water and landing flat on your stomach, producing a loud slap and stinging pain.
The term extends to any clumsy, flat landing: The gymnast went belly flopping onto the mat.
Figuratively, it can describe spectacular failure: The product launch went belly flopping into obscurity.
Exaggerated physical humor
- pratfallComedic fall on buttocks
- gagMouth restraint or jest
- laughterVocal expression of amusement
- guffawBoisterous burst of mirth
hilarious · funny · ridiculous · spectacle · antics · blooper · fail video · poolside
Intense shame or embarrassment
- humiliationLoss of dignity
- red-facedShowing visible embarrassment
- shamePainful awareness of failure
- cringeShrink from discomfort
awkwardness · sheepish · flustered · self-conscious · spectators · laughingstock · regret · replay
Error in estimation
- misjudgmentFaulty evaluation of something
- blunderFoolish, costly mistake
- botchedPoorly executed, spoiled
- failBe unsuccessful
awkward · clumsy · uncoordinated · graceless · inelegant · mistimed · overrotate · technique
splash
Liquid scattering on impact
thud · whack · plunge · water · surface · pool · chest · skin · red · welt
slapstick
Exaggerated physical humor
guffaw · hilarious · funny · ridiculous · spectacle · antics · blooper · fail video · poolside · showing off
mortification
Intense shame or embarrassment
- humiliationLoss of dignity
- red-facedShowing visible embarrassment
- shamePainful awareness of failure
cringe · awkwardness · sheepish · flustered · self-conscious · spectators · laughingstock · regret · replay · witnesses
miscalculation
Error in estimation
- misjudgmentFaulty evaluation of something
- blunderFoolish, costly mistake
- botchedPoorly executed, spoiled
fail · awkward · clumsy · uncoordinated · graceless · inelegant · mistimed · overrotate · technique · execution
- animal behaviorsswimming, running, walking, jumping, flying
- sledding gamessnow tubing, time trials, speed runs
- pinnipedsseal, sea lion, sea lions, fur seal, fur seals
- sledding activitiestobogganing, tubing, snow tubing, bobsledding, luging
belly floppingswan dive
Arched forward plunge
Olympic diving · pike dive · jackknife · synchronized diving · platform diving
belly, flop, bellies, bellied, bellying, flops, flopped, flopper, floppers