noun
pulling body slam
A sumo technique where the wrestler pulls the opponent's body forward and down while stepping back, causing the opponent to fall forward.
横綱は呼び戻しで相手を土俵に這わせた。
The yokozuna used a pulling body slam to force his opponent onto the ring.
Standard kanji spelling for this sumo term.
Variant kanji spelling using the older form of 戻.
呼び戻し is the nominalized form of the verb 呼び戻す, which means 'to call back' or 'to summon back' in general usage, but in sumo it refers specifically to this technique.
From the verb 呼び戻す (to call back, to pull back), nominalized. The sumo technique name derives from the motion of pulling the opponent back toward oneself.