hand-spring

There 's only one move he has axed from his routine this year: the backwards hand-spring.

Alumni Dust Off the Pom-Pons Hannah Karp 2010

Bill's overtaxed brain turned one convulsive hand-spring, and came to rest with a sense of having dislocated itself.

Uneasy Money 1928

One, beaming westerly, disclosed a loaded excursion steamer half-way to Hell Gate, and, a moment later, turning a hand-spring, picked up in its diverging path the Fall River steamer miles away to the eastward.

The U-boat hunters 1912

There are days when I could do a hand-spring, if for nothing more than to shock my solemn old

The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912

The two smaller boys threw off their coats, hitched up their trousers -- always a part of the performance whether necessary or not -- and began the high kick, high jump, handspring, somersault, wagon wheel, ending with hand-spring, and bending backwards until their heads touched the ground.

The Chinese Boy and Girl 1901

Whin our rayporther was dhriven off th 'premises be wan iv th' rough riders, th 'head iv th' nation was tachin 'Lord Dum de Dum an' Sicrety Hay how to do a hand-spring, an 'th' other guests was scattered about th 'lawn, boxin', rasslin ', swingin' on th 'thrapeze, ridin' th 'buckin' bronco an 'shootin' at th 'naygro pote f'r th' dhrinks -- in short enjyin 'an ideel day in th' counthry.

Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

The two smaller boys threw off their coats, hitched up their trousers -- always a part of the performance whether necessary or not -- and began the high kick, high jump, handspring, somersault, wagon wheel, ending with hand-spring, and bending backwards until their heads touched the ground.

The Chinese Boy and Girl Isaac Taylor Headland 1900

He reached the end of the rope and his hand-spring became a vaulting somersault.

The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse Hamlin Garland 1900

And Richard went, with a yell and a hand-spring, to throw in his lot with

Georgina of the Rainbows 1897

"Whoop, hurrah!" cried Berry, throwing up his hat, turning a hand-spring, and catching the hat as it came down.

Bricks without Straw A Novel 1880