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

The USA's Ilia Malinin performs a somersault during his routine in the figure skating team event.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2025

Ever the showman, he celebrated with a somersault.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2025

She must have done a double somersault off the backboard.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

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

Adopting the moniker of Prince, the fleet-footed fighter entertained the masses with his leopard-print shorts and somersaults into the boxing ring.

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 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

He wasn’t in the mood to turn somersaults, though he couldn’t deny experiencing a sense of liberation.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

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

Nearly 30 seconds passed before Keaton finally sprinted through the audience, dramatically somersaulted onto the stage Batman-style, relieved Hayek of the little green statue and blamed his tardiness on an ill-timed bathroom break.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2022

Pulisic somersaulted off both hands and landed hard.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2021

A young fellow somersaulted backward from the cart to the sound of drumming, while a fat man wearing a red jerkin and bells on his trousers danced a jig, and another played the tabor.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Fernandez was first shown a yellow card for dissent, then a second for a spectacularly late challenge that sent Cubarsi somersaulting.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 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

They jumped from trailer windows, somersaulting across the procession's rooftops.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton