tirarse a la piscina
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tiˌɾaɾse a la pisˈθina/ [t̪iˌɾaɾ.se a la pisˈθi.na] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /tiˌɾaɾse a la piˈsina/ [t̪iˌɾaɾ.se a la piˈsi.na] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: ti‧rar‧se a la pis‧ci‧na
Verb
tirarse a la piscina (first-person singular present me tiro a la piscina, first-person singular preterite me tiré a la piscina, past participle tirado a la piscina)
- (sports, soccer, idiomatic) to dive (to deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “lanzarse, o tirarse, a la piscina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024