somersaults

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But the late justice, buried at Maple Grove Cemetery in Frewsburg, N.Y., is doubtless turning somersaults in his grave.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2025

Stone knits puppets and vaudeville acts, songs and somersaults, as well as melds two groups of people who might not have shared a lunch table in high school — the jocks and the theater geeks.

From Seattle Times • May 28, 2024

In China, the extremely agile Zhou Quan set a record for the highest number of consecutive leg full twist back somersaults, managing 11 in a row.

From Reuters • Nov. 16, 2023

Waiting outside the train station to meet their birth mother for the first time, Neil's stomach is doing nervous somersaults.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2023

My old heart started turning somersaults; and something that felt like a thousand-legged centipede jiggled its way up my spine.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls