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somersaulting

somersaulting is the present participle and gerund of somersault.

Meaning of somersault

Verb

somersault (third-person singular simple present somersaults, present participle somersaulting, simple past and past participle somersaulted)

  1. To perform a somersault.
    • Near-synonym: backflip
    Synonyms:
    backflip

See all 2 meanings of somersault

Noun

somersaulting (plural somersaultings)

  1. An instance of performing a somersault.

Forms of somersaulting

pluralsomersaultings

Questions about somersaulting

What does somersaulting mean?
Somersaulting means an instance of performing a somersault.
What is somersaulting the present participle and gerund of?
Somersaulting is the present participle and gerund of somersault.
What part of speech is somersaulting?
Somersaulting is a noun.
What is the plural of somersaulting?
The plural of somersaulting is somersaultings.

Words near somersaulting in the dictionary

  1. somersault signal
  2. somersault signals
  3. somersaulted
  4. somersaulter
  5. somersaulters
  6. somersaulting
  7. somersaultings
  8. somersaults
  9. Somersby
  10. somerset
  11. Somerset County

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Adapted from Wiktionary: somersaulting (page history and authors); somersault (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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