take a knee (English, verb)
expansion: take a knee (third-person singular simple present takes a knee, present participle taking a knee, simple past took a knee, past participle taken a knee)
Senses:
glosses: To come to rest, usually briefly, with one of one's knees on the ground.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Of any player with the ball, to kneel and place the ball on the ground, thereby ending the play and indicating they do not intend to advance with the ball.
tags: Canadian
glosses: To cease performing customary activities or duties and kneel on one knee, sometimes as a form of protest.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, knee.
Forms:
form: takes a knee
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: taking a knee
tags: participle
present
form: took a knee
tags: past
form: taken a knee
tags: participle
past
form: take the knee
tags: alternative