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cartwheel

UK/ˈkɑːtˌwiːl/US/ˈkɑɹtˌwil/

cartwheel noun: the wheel of a cart.

cartwheel: the wheel of a cart
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Noun

cartwheel (plural cartwheels)

  1. The wheel of a cart.
    • Near-synonyms: wagon wheel, artillery wheel
  2. A gymnastic maneuver whereby the gymnast rotates to one side or the other while keeping arms and legs outstretched, spinning for one or more revolutions.
  3. (UK, historical, obsolete, slang) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
    • Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words
  4. (US, historical, obsolete, slang) A silver dollar of the larger size produced before 1979.

Verb

cartwheel (third-person singular simple present cartwheels, present participle cartwheeling, simple past and past participle cartwheeled)

  1. To perform the gymnastics feat of a cartwheel.
  2. To flip end over end: normally said of a crashing vehicle or aircraft.
    • The race car hit a bump and cartwheeled over the finish line.

cartwheel meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Thai

cartwheel in Tamil

வண்டிச் சக்கரம், பக்கவாட்டில் கரணம் அடி

cartwheel in Kannada

ಬಂಡಿಯ ಚಕ್ರ, ಅಂತರಲಾಗ, ಪಲ್ಟಿ, ಚಕ್ರಲಾಗ

cartwheel in Thai

perform the gymnastics feat of a cartwheel
ตีลังกา dtīi-lāng-gāa

Synonyms of cartwheel

Forms of cartwheel

Noun
pluralcartwheels
Verb
third-person singular presentcartwheels
present participlecartwheeling
past participlecartwheeled
pastcartwheeled

Origin of cartwheel

From cart + wheel.

Words formed from cartwheel

Phrases with cartwheel

Questions about cartwheel

What does cartwheel mean?
Cartwheel means the wheel of a cart.
What is cartwheel in Tamil?
Cartwheel in Tamil is வண்டிச் சக்கரம், பக்கவாட்டில் கரணம் அடி. See Cartwheel meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cartwheel?
Cartwheel can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce cartwheel?
Cartwheel is pronounced /ˈkɑːtˌwiːl/ (UK).
What is the plural of cartwheel?
The plural of cartwheel is cartwheels.

Words near cartwheel in the dictionary

  1. cartulary
  2. cartwain
  3. cartwains
  4. cartway
  5. cartways
  6. cartwheel
  7. cartwheel hat
  8. cartwheel hats
  9. cartwheeled
  10. cartwheeler
  11. cartwheelers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cartwheel (page history and authors); cartwheel (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cartwheel (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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