hand-springs

One was dressed like a clown, and performed funny antics, and the others leaped over the spoons and dishes and ran around the table like race-horses, and turned hand-springs and were so sprightly and amusing that they kept the company in one roar of merry laughter.

Love Letters 2010

I mean, certainly if I was the absolute best writer I can be, I would have been so brilliant that despite any other issues, everyone would be turning hand-springs to move forward, right?

Definitions Steven Barnes 2009

Always something seriously wrong with a person who does back hand-springs day in and day out in order to live a healthy, natural lifestyle.

whitehelmet Diary Entry whitehelmet 2005

And Brooks incorporated it in a product that does hand-springs around his competitors.

Scent of Danger Andrea Kane 2003

When he learned to do head-sets, hand-springs and the like she urged him on to greater acrobatic achievements.

Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden

"I'm a Circus Clown," said he, "and I just turn these hand-springs all day."

Kernel Cob And Little Miss Sweetclover George Mitchel

"Oh," said the Clown, "I tell myself funny stories to make me laugh, and then I have my hand-springs to make; that keeps me pretty busy," and he rolled along the shelf, head over heels.

Kernel Cob And Little Miss Sweetclover George Mitchel

This is true even of the air-somersets and hand-springs which are not so commonly cultivated by gymnasts; but it is especially true of all exercises with apparatus.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various

He wore an immense turned-down collar, and was continually doing hand-springs and wonderful back somersaults.

McTeague 1920

The tongues ceased wagging in order that they might turn hand-springs.

The Oakdale Affair 1918