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A face plant is a fall in which you land face-first, typically hitting the ground hard and ungracefully: She tripped on the curb and did a face plant right in front of everyone.
The term originated in skateboarding and extreme sports but now describes any such tumble.
As a verb, to face-plant is to fall this way: He face-planted on the ice.
- faceplantFall forward onto face
- wipeoutComplete, catastrophic failure
- crashSudden violent impact
- epic failSpectacular, embarrassing blunder
- fallDescend under gravity
hit the ground · splat · tumble · trip · stumble · lose balance · pavement · concrete · dirt · eat dirt · ouch · embarrassing · clumsy · sprawl · belly flop · skateboard · bike · yard sale
- clumsinessclumsiness, clumsy, awkwardness, fumble, stumble
- downward motionsfall, drop, descend, plunge, sink
- failingfail, fails, collapse, flop, bomb
- slapstickpratfall, banana peel, pie throw, falling down, custard pie
- Visual Comedyslapstick, pratfall, pratfalls, sight gag, sight gags
- Board Sportsollie, kickflip, heelflip, grind, rail
landing quality
face plantsoft landing
Controlled, gradual descent
smooth landing · stick the landing · safe landing · touchdown · three-point landing
face, plant, faces, faced, facing, facial, facially, surface, deface