walkover

Plural: walkovers

Noun

• An easy victory or a contest won without opposition.
• backbends combined with handstands
• any undertaking that is easy to do
• An easy victory; a walkaway.
• A bye or victory awarded to a competitor when a scheduled opponent fails to play a game.
• A horse race with only one entrant.
• An uncontested election.
• Someone easy to defeat.
• Someone who does not stand up for themselves when mistreated; a doormat.
• A backbend combined with a handstand.
• A match whose winner is declared because the other boxer does not appear in the ring within one minute of the official time.
• A type of railroad passenger car seat, having reversible seat backs that can be moved across the seat to face either direction of travel
• An ecological survey carried out by walking across and examining a piece of land.

Examples

• After his opponent resigned, it was a walkover for him in Words With Friends.
• It took about 10 minutes to flip the walkovers in each car.
• The train's walkover seats are turned by the crew.

Synonyms

breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, snap, easy thing