somersaults

Example Sentences

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If you could have seen inner Mark when he didn't reach the pink, he was doing somersaults and then I potted a good yellow.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

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

His body somersaults, over and over, faster and faster, until it hangs suspended, just above the stage floor.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2024

I was able to regain control, except on one of my tumbling passes on floor, I went too hard into the somersaults and landed out of bounds.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles