somersault

How To Use somersault In A Sentence

• Some experienced foreign jumpers displayed hand-in-hand group jumping, wingsuit jumping and somersaults during free fall; all the risky stunts thrilled the audience.
• Let's remember, for example, how much talk there was during the early 1970s when Olga Korbut performed the backward somersault in tuck position on the beam.
• One soldier managed to successfully execute the somersault maneuver that most people are familiar with from the childhoods.
• Chen, who is now playing elder sister to many of her younger classmates, has already accustomed herself to the endless backward somersaults, handstands and horse vaults.
• Gymnasts start early and children as young as two use soft apparatus to learn their first somersault and handspring, under the watchful eyes of more than 20 qualified coaches.
• The starboard ski did a backward somersault over the tail section just as Mike and his crew had feared.
• Eye-witnesses reported seeing the car somersaulting.
• I did a somersault and landed gracefully on my feet.
• A sleek master of gyrating, torpedoing, somersaulting "aquabatics," Mijbal becomes an indefatigable symbol of everything that is playful and self-delighting in the universe. Dispatches From the Natural World
• Dave got one young gangster round the waist and pitched him off in a somersault. THE SECRET OF THE FORGOTTEN CITY