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US
/ˈsəmɝˌsɔɫtɪŋ/
]
[ UK /sˈʌməsˌɒltɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /sˈʌməsˌɒltɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return
How To Use somersaulting In A Sentence
- Eye-witnesses reported seeing the car somersaulting.
- 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
- But that did not keep her from somersaulting to the top in the Soviet world of gymnastics.
- In 1990 he became a prizewinner, at the Mondial du Cirque du Demain in Paris, with a performance including dancing and somersaulting on the Tight Wire.
- Hamlet," and then create a revulsion of feeling by somersaulting over the centre-fire of the circle and standing on his head before it, grinning diabolically at the incensed pot? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861
- When she wouldn't stop somersaulting and cartwheeling in the front room we decided to take her dancing.
- The only injuries this time are some pulled muscles in the back of my neck from somersaulting down the hill.
- While to the ordinary eye the witch is indistinguishable from those around her, to the priest she appears to be somersaulting through the air and turning cartwheels.
- The man was knocked somersaulting backwards on the ground from the force of my power.
- He saw the deer hurled into the air, its willowy body limply somersaulting like a stuffed toy.