noun
definition
Starting on one's feet, an instance of rotating one's body 360 degree while airborne or on the ground, with one's feet going over one's head.
verb
definition
To perform a somersault.
example
The performer somersaulted all the way across the stage.
Examples of somersaults in a Sentence
Kiera's heart still did somersaults, and she felt both doubtful Evelyn would follow through and ecstatic at the prospect.
Rob Cooper Well done again to Rob who entered a higher grade in the recent competition and included two somersaults in his routine.
Translates into ' Tilt - twist ' in twisting multiple somersaults and easily visible viewed from the short end of the trampoline.
Next came Sautin, with an attempt at the mind-boggling reverse two-and-a-half somersaults with one-and-a-half twists that was introduced to the sport by Ali.
In Russian Bars, artists fly through the air with spectacular somersaults, landing on bars perched on the sturdy shoulders of catchers.
Advance Trampolining Course If you can do front and back somersaults this course is for you.
I 'd damn near turned triple somersaults on Terry Ware 's steaming guitar work.
Translates into ' Tilt - Twist ' in twisting multiple somersaults and easily visible viewed from the short end of the trampoline.
But does a modern pluralist society need to turn somersaults in an attempt to devise a common national identity at all?
Three minutes of cheerleaders doing somersaults and backflips alongside a characteristic basket toss can be borderline boring for many fans.
I'd damn near turned triple somersaults on Terry Ware's steaming guitar work.
Its wings flap up and down as it moves, stopping from time to time to perform backward somersaults.
In 1861 Blondin first appeared in London, at the Crystal Palace, turning somersaults on stilts on a rope stretched across the central transept, 170 ft.
Boys tended to play football and some liked to perform handstands against a wall or do somersaults.