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

"She used to somersault off the window sills," said mother Leanne, while father Chris admitted they "still did not know anything about gymnastics".

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

With her hands steady at the controls, her voice calm as she spoke to mission control, Collins piloted the craft through a slow, graceful somersault.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025

After Joveljic doubled the advantage four minutes later on an assist from Mark Delgado, he performed a somersault in the penalty area, then ran away from his teammates and bowed toward Puig on the sidelines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2024

They don’t walk like ordinary dogs, but leap and somersault like an apostrophe and comma.

From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros

It also completed 10 somersaults in only 11 seconds while remaining within about 4 or 5 centimeters of its planned flight 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

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

He grunted, clapped his paws, and turned a few somersaults.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Children somersaulted into a pool as adults sipped cocktails and dined on burgers, blue- and orange-striped umbrellas shielding them from the summer sun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2025

Polly compares the enormous explosion to being in a movie, "a yellow swirl of light… then being flipped into the air and somersaulted around".

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2024

Kenneth Gainwell somersaulted into the end zone for a 12-yard score and a 7-0 Eagles’ lead in the first quarter.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2023

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

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

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

By twelve, she could tuck her chin to her chest and throw herself forward, somersaulting in the wind.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell