A turn or rotation made in the opposite direction to another turn, or a reversal of direction.
From counter- + turn. Turn comes from Old English tyrnan. Counterturn describes opposing rotational movements or directional reversals.
Dancers use counterturns—spinning one way, then immediately the opposite direction—to create visual momentum and dizzying effects that single rotations could never achieve.
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