kneeling position
Praying body stance
A kneeling position is a posture with one or both knees on the ground.
The term appears in contexts from prayer to shooting to yoga: She assumed a kneeling position beside the bed.
In military and hunting contexts, it provides stability while reducing profile: He fired from a kneeling position.
- genuflectBend knee reverently
- prayerAddress to deity
- prayer matRug for ritual kneeling
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
- prostrateLying fully extended
bowing · submission · floor · altar · church pew · pew · propose · marriage proposal · devotion · supplication · humility · crouching · reverence · begging · ceremony · yoga · yoga pose · meditation
- shotsgunshot, B-52, Jagerbomb, Kamikaze, lemon drop
- marksmanshipmarksmanship, dry firing, accuracy, aim, target practice
- shooting rangesshooting range, gun range, lanes, firing range, firing line
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Upright bodily posture
standing · upright position · erect posture · lying down · standing tall
kneeling positionstanding tall
Remaining proudly upright
towering over · lording over · enthroned · head held high · chest out
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