Sentences with phrase «reduces air resistance as»

Crouching down reduces air resistance as you make yourself smaller and hide behind the handle bar of the scooter.

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The skater crouches forward (as if he was skating in a squat position) to reduce drag caused by air resistance on the front of his body, and to help him balance.

As downhill skiers can exceed speeds of 120 km / h, they are subjected to high levels of air resistance, and must adopt a tuck position to reduce this.

Those tiny wheels that look so impossibly small when contrasted with the Leaf's slab sides sit on low - rolling - resistance tires that reduce friction and disturb less air as they roll down the road.

Scarcely visible body panel joins, concealed windscreen wipers, cameras instead of exterior mirrors and an absence of conventional door handles emphasise the stretched, dynamic silhouette, making the SUV crossover appear as a unified whole while reducing its air resistance.

The upper grille opening has been optimised to help the air flow smoothly over the upper half of the body, and the size of the lower grille has been enlarged to reduce airflow resistance as well as improving engine cooling efficie