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  • verb Present participle 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

  • The Conservative Party's decision to take part in October's local government elections is another example of it 'somersaulting' on important issues, Herstigte Nasionale Party leader Jaap Marais said on Monday.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Jaa grew up in a rural area of Thailand and watched films by Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li at temple fairs, and learned to imitate their moves whilst creating his own, such as somersaulting off the backs of his family's elephants into the nearby river.

    Kung Fu Cinema 2009

  • Jaa grew up in a rural area of Thailand and watched films by Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li at temple fairs, and learned to imitate their moves whilst creating his own, such as somersaulting off the backs of his family's elephants into the nearby river.

    Kung Fu Cinema 2009

  • Discovery — the first to perform the somersaulting maneuver, back in 2005 — is the first in the fleet to be retired this year.

    Discovery arrives at space station 2011

  • Because at that moment I looked over her ruffled shoulder and saw Brian meandering through the carpark, keys somersaulting in the air and landing again in his palm.

    Three Mississippi Sally Houtman 2011

  • They were left as helpless as she must have felt, approaching the somersaulting numbers distorting the family mailbox.

    Confession Laura C. Alonso 2011

  • The discipline is known as Parkour, and it's a phenomenon on the Internet, where montages capture urban athletes bouncing off walls and somersaulting down sidewalks.

    Tuesday's Run and Gun Shows 2011

  • And in every other conflict in the world does there have to be this somersaulting each second on how one recognized set of leadership or other is too immoral or evil to be a negotiating partner, therefore just keep letting the situation rage?

    Matthew Yglesias » Parallel 2009

  • A sleek master of gyrating, torpedoing, somersaulting "aquabatics," Mijbal becomes an indefatigable symbol of everything that is playful and self-delighting in the universe.

    Dispatches From the Natural World 2011

  • Best was somersaulting urban trial rider Danny MacAskill , a likable Scot whose idea of a bike ride starts with a backward wheelie down a banister and then gets complicated.

    Rewind TV: Ocean Giants; Who Do You Think You Are?; The Story of British Pathé: the Birth of the News; Wilfred – review 2011

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