Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
somersault .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
somersault ,somerset .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Archaic spelling of
somersault .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return
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Examples
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As Michigan faces off against Iowa this weekend in its annual homecoming game, Dick Kimball plans to have two friends pitch him into a backwards summersault on the sidelines.
Alumni Dust Off the Pom-Pons Hannah Karp 2010
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Does this mean you need to summersault through life with a permanent smile?
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Then I throw my summersault pen at you and you must continue my story before the bell chimes, before the chalice of God hits the cobble stone floor of my marigold mansion.
Why I write 2009
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It's a bit like learning how to launch into a triple-summersault without the benefit of having a net below.
Sargent’s Painting Notes James Gurney 2009
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Then I throw my summersault pen at you and you must continue my story before the bell chimes, before the chalice of God hits the cobble stone floor of my marigold mansion.
I write you 2009
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On Obama's Guantanamo summersault, the BBC News website reveals exactly how Beeboids are coping with the story, & rationalising it so as to forgive their messiah.
OPEN THREAD 2009
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But she surprises me with her verve, dodging the car at the last second with a little roll that reverses into like a forward summersault, coming down way hard on my unmentionables.
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But she surprises me with her verve, dodging the car at the last second with a little roll that reverses into like a forward summersault, coming down way hard on my unmentionables.
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Carr completed only three of his first 11 passes, and the longest play of the first half was when Carr eluded linebacker Derrick Brooks by leaping into the air and doing a summersault on a 15-yard gain.
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Blogging Tory: "By graciously sacrificing his government in order to show how the leftists will stoop to ANYTHING in their mad quest for power, and leaving the recession to be blamed on THEM, harper has once again performed a double triple-axle summersault pirouette of a humdinger of a ... blah, blah, blah."
Oh, for fuck's sake, Stephen! CC 2008
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