somersault
IPA: sˈʌmɝsɔɫt
noun
- Starting on one's feet, an instance of rotating one's body 360 degrees while airborne or on the ground, with one's feet passing over one's head.
verb
- To perform a somersault.
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Examples of "somersault" in Sentences
- He is good at doing somersault.
- For the gymastic feat, see Somersault.
- The animal turned a somersault upon her.
- The somersault has occurred just recently
- The leg drop can sometimes be a somersault variation.
- The article is meant to recognize Somersault as a legitimate entity.
- The field was knobbly, and the airplane bounced and turned a somersault.
- I work for Somersault and have the necessary authorization to upload it.
- A corkscrew can also be added to the somersault to further modify moves.
- The most popular version of this ends it with a jumping somersault senton.
- Apparently he decided to "somersault" off the bed in the middle of the night and ended up with a bloody nose.
- Except he just did some kind of somersault which looked much more agile than anything anyone would have expected of him.
- From these more or less contemptuous views of mankind at large Mr. Channing turns with a kind of somersault to an intense admiration for Thoreau.
- The National Party's "somersault" on the indemnity issue indicates that it has caved in to the African National Congress, the Conservative Party said in a statement in Pretoria on
- Look you, if you plant a bullet just below an Indian's navel, you will see him do a double somersault, which is more wonderful to behold than any circus performance you ever saw. "
- The youth leader said the SABC's "somersault" in deciding to continue screening the programme was evident of the corporation's weakness under pressure from the South African Communist Party and the ANC.
- “I know a lot of people are in somersault land,” Representative Rahm Emanuel, Democrat of Illinois and chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said reproachfully of fellow Democrats.
- I suppose she forgot to keep her neck thrown back, or to draw in her breath properly; at any rate, up went her heels, and down went her head, and she seemed suddenly to turn a kind of somersault in the water.
- The thought roused him to still greater exertions, and at last by a heroic effort he succeeded in turning a kind of somersault in his cold prison, which had the happy result of putting his head where his heels had been.
- Chicory turned a rough kind of somersault as he caught sight of his brother sitting up and doing that which was dear to Chicory's own heart -- eating; and as there was a good share of food beside Coffee, the tired brother made no scruple about going to join him and help him eat.