Meaning & use
trust fall
A team-building exercise in which a person falls backward, trusting others to catch them.
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During orientation week, new employees did a trust fall to help them bond as a team.
She was nervous before the trust fall, but her teammates caught her easily.
A note on using this word
Trust fall is often used figuratively outside team-building contexts to describe any situation requiring one to rely completely on someone else.
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