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Bicycle kick Forward  Ruben Mendoza , from the United States men's national football team, executes a bicycle kick. A  bicycle kick , also known as an  overhead kick  or  scissors kick , is a physical move in association football. It is achieved by throwing the body backward up into the air, making a shearing movement with the lower limbs to get one leg in front of the other in order to strike an airborne  ball  rearwards above head level, without resting on the ground. In most languages, the manoeuvre is named after either the  cycling motion  or the  scissor motion  that it resembles. Its complexity, and uncommon performance in competitive football matches, makes it one of association football's most celebrated  skills . [A] Bicycle kicks can be used defensively to clear away the ball from the goalmouth or offensively to strike at the opponent's goal in an attempt to score. The bicycle kick is an advan...