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somersaulting

[ US /ˈsəmɝˌsɔɫtɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /sˈʌməsˌɒltɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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.
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