freewheeling

Example Sentences

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While Major League Baseball has been sweating over pitch clocks, ghost runners and the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System, the Savannah Bananas have been juggling, dancing, cartwheeling along the baselines and running to first on stilts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

Using Elsie's attitude to cartwheeling as an example, her dad David Stancombe adds: "When she was focused on something, she was determined to master it."

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2025

Biles begins with a sprint down the runway and reaches her hands toward the ground while cartwheeling her legs over her head.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2024

I’d thought that, as pandemic restrictions eased, there’d be less need for such counsel, and dreamed that the world would fling open its gates and all of us, too-long cooped-up, would come cartwheeling through.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2022

I’m so happy when Brandy calls me to ask if I want to come for lunch that I have to keep myself from cartwheeling into a wall.

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt