somersault

To perform one somersault after another, the robot must slow down in exactly the right way so that it begins each new flip under the proper conditions.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Isack Hadjar crashed his Red Bull on his own at the final chicane and Pierre Gasly's Alpine was tipped into a somersault by Liam Lawson's Racing Bulls at the final corner.

From BBC ● May 3, 2026

“But wait, you say, ‘I’ve seen them dance and somersault, and even bounce off walls.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2026

Brady Hummel was so wide open he could have done a somersault.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2025

But what they hadn’t known and discovered with the help of my analysis was that the forces associated with wake turbulence can be so great that they can somersault a plane out of the sky.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

The robot was agile enough to complete 10 consecutive somersaults in 11 seconds, even while wind disturbances tried to knock it away from its intended path.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

From shoulder shimmies and frat flicks to somersaults and knee slides, the Flemings and Schifferles left it all on the dance floor to prove the prowess of their family name.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

After a Red Bull aerobatic helicopter improbably flipped over its rotor and pulled itself out of a dive at the last second, a group of children near the shore started imitating the maneuver in somersaults.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 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

Also, it didn’t hurt that I absolutely loved doing backflips and somersaults.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

It somersaulted and landed upside down, before righting itself upon landing.

From BBC ● May 17, 2025

He somersaulted over the snow at New York’s Whiteface Mountain, near a spot where his coach was watching.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 24, 2023

Two drives later, Davis front-flip somersaulted into the end zone for a six-yard score.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 23, 2022

They tumbled off steps and rails, hit the concrete, somersaulted, slid and loofahed any exposed skin.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2021

And in a general disheartening, the leaves let go, twirled and somersaulted, and finally settled down to sleep.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

Human soldiers have easily foiled AI systems by doing what is "out of the ordinary", like somersaulting or putting cardboard boxes over their heads, he adds.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

But Dobbins, who has had a long history of injuries, raised eyebrows when he celebrated the touchdown by somersaulting into the end zone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2024

Watching her gracefully somersaulting through the water — her silvery tail towed, at one point, by Sebastian’s tiny pincer — you can’t help feeling something not present enough on screens these days: joy.

From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023

He amassed nearly 400 videos showing great apes and other primates engaged in spinning behaviors, including somersaulting, rolling down hills, backflipping and pirouetting.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2023

She envisioned Grover, bloated, somersaulting in the water, his eyes spongy with fungus ..

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen