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• The gymnast performed a perfect somersault.From the entry perfect
• The puck position is allowed during competitions when performing multi-twisting multiple somersaults.2013, The Sports Book: The Sports, the Rules, the Tactics, the Techniques. From the entry puck
• The breathtaking beauty of this vista made my soul turn somersaults.2008 [1990], John Blofeld, “The Place I Love Most of All—Peking”, in Daniel Reid, transl., My Journey in Mystic China: Old Pu's Travel…. From the entry breathtaking
• We went to Plaster Creek, smoked a fattie, and emerged doing somersaults and cartwheels and laughing.2004, Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman, Scar Tissue. From the entry fatty
• Inside, gymnast Chris Lashua rolls, turns and spins through a series of gravity-defying somersaults and acrobatics.1997 February, “Big Top For Your Head”, in Orange Coast Magazine, page 36. From the entry German wheel
• There were also those favorite accessoryless activities -- cartwheeling and somersaulting.1987, Mike McIntyre, CONCERT GRAND. From the entry accessoryless
• Charlie Dabney subsided into an imperceptible chair, and somersaulted in the direction of the gulley-trap.1963, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, The Scarecrow, Text Classics, published 2012, page 172. From the entry gully trap
• Those that survived were working museums right to the end, with somersault signals and original interior fittings and signage.2020 November 18, Howard Johnston, “The missing 'Lincs' and the sole survivor”, in Rail, pages 58–59. From the entry somersault signal
• Penne and braised rabe somersault in a frying pan.2010, Anthony Di Renzo, Bitter Greens, page 96. From the entry rabe
• At the elite level, DMT is one of the most spectacular sports, with competitors completing high, multi-twisting somersaults.2009, Trampolining. From the entry DMT
• A front somersault as executed in the water is basically the same type of movement as that executed in tumbling activities.1957, Doris Layson Bullock, “Skills in the Water”, in Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, volume 28, page 28. From the entry turtle
• It rockabyes to the sidewalk behind him, somersaults into the lawn, gets trapped by the blades of grass, and flaps there like a wounded bird.2009, James Boice, NoVA, Scribner, page 309. From the entry rockabye
• Turns, twists, walks, runs, falls, and somersaults, along with many other movements, are the specific vocabularic elements which make up the lexicon of dance.2002, Robert Wuthnow, Vocabularies Of Public Life, page 171. From the entry lexicon
• It was a complete confessional somersault.1901, The Lutheran Quarterly, volume 31, page 231. From the entry symbolophobia
• When you are finished with circle time, dismiss your children by helping each one do a roly-poly roll (a somersault) and roll away to their next activity.1994, Patty Claycomb, “Roly-poly”, in Gayle Bittinger, editor, Bear Hugs for Circle Time: Positive Activities that Encourage Children to…. From the entry roly-poly

Meaning of somersault

1. 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.
2. verb To perform a somersault.

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How do you use somersault in a sentence?

Somersault is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The performer somersaulted all the way across the stage.”

What is a short sentence with somersault?

“It was a complete confessional somersault.”

What does somersault mean?

Somersault means 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.