backpedal in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Translations for backpedal in the English»Spanish Dictionary

backpedal <backpedaling backpedaled Am backpedalling backpedalled Brit> [Am ˈbækˌpɛdl, Brit ˌbakˈpɛd(ə)l] VB intr

1. backpedal (on bicycle):

backpedal

pedalear hacia atrás

2. backpedal (retreat):

backpedal

dar marcha atrás

backpedal

echarse atrás

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

But if the receiver can not make the defensive back get out of his backpedal, the defensive player is in perfect position for the interception.

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They began to backpedal from the banking metaphor by trying to make banked blood seem less like a product exchanged in markets.

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His opponents seem to spend entire matches backpedalling away from him.

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But the groundswell of opposition towards the planned sale of the national assets made the federal government to backpedal.

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The study's findings mean that labs developing digital neural networks basically have to backpedal and train their systems all over again to recognize adversarial examples.

motherboard.vice.com

He's smooth in his backpedal, shows explosiveness getting in and out of his breaks and has excellent recovery speed as well.

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Govt ministers backpedalling and bowing to public scrutiny is a healthy sign of a mature society.

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Tomorrow (or soon enough) they will backpedal on this promise.

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Delta seemed to backpedal on this alliance after the public outcry.

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All that fat boy had done was run like a thief- hit me with a peck and backpedal like crazy.

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