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cartwheeling

cartwheeling is the present participle and gerund of cartwheel.

Meaning of cartwheel

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.

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Questions about cartwheeling

What is cartwheeling the present participle and gerund of?
Cartwheeling is the present participle and gerund of cartwheel.

Words near cartwheeling in the dictionary

  1. cartwheel hat
  2. cartwheel hats
  3. cartwheeled
  4. cartwheeler
  5. cartwheelers
  6. cartwheeling
  7. cartwheels
  8. cartwhip
  9. cartwhipped
  10. cartwhipping
  11. cartwhippings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cartwheeling (page history and authors); cartwheel (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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