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walk·o·ver  (wôkvr)

n.

1. Something that is easy and presents no difficulties, especially an easily won sports contest.

2. A horserace with only one horse entered, won by the mere formality of walking the length of the track.

3. A gymnastic feat in which the body is bent forward or backward from an upright position, the hands are placed on the floor, and the legs are arced one after the other over the hands to finish in a standing position.

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walkover [ˈwɔːkˌəʊvə]

n

1. Informal an easy or unopposed victory

2. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Horse Racing) Horse racing

a.  the running or walking over the course by the only contestant entered in a race at the time of starting

b.  a race won in this way

vb walk over (intr, mainly preposition)

1. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Horse Racing) (also adverb) to win a race by a walkover

2. Informal to beat (an opponent) conclusively or easily

3. Informal to take advantage of (someone)

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	walkover - backbends combined with handstands   acrobatic feat, acrobatic stunt - a stunt performed by an acrobat
	2.	walkover - any undertaking that is easy to do; "marketing this product will be no picnic" child's play, cinch, duck soup, piece of cake, pushover, breeze, picnic, snap doddle - an easy task project, task, undertaking, labor - any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he prepared for great undertakings"

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walkover

noun pushover, easy victory, breeze (U.S. & Canad. informal), cinch (slang), picnic (informal), landslide, child's play (informal) (slang), piece of cake (informal), doddle (Brit. slang), snap (informal), no-brainer (informal), cakewalk (informal), duck soup (U.S. slang), piece of piss (Brit. slang) The next general election is unlikely to be a walkover for the government.
labour, grind (informal), effort, trial, struggle, strain, ordeal

Translations

walkover [ˈwɔːkˌəʊvəʳ] N

1. (Horse racing) → walkover m

2. (fig) → victoria f fácil, paseo m, pan m comido

walkover [ˈwɔːkəʊvə^r] n (= easy victory) → victoire f facile
walk-up [ˈwɔːkʌp] n (US) (= building) → immeuble m sans ascenseur (= apartment) → appartement m dans un immeuble sans ascenseur
She lives in a tiny fifth floor walk-up in New York's East Village → Elle vit à l'East Village à New York, dans un minuscule appartement au cinquième sans ascenseur.

walkover [ˈwɔːkˌəʊvəʳ] n (Sport) → vittoria facile
the exam was a walkover → l'esame è stato una vera passeggiata