somersault

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

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 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

Ever the showman, he celebrated with a somersault.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2025

When circus-goers witness acts like a triple somersault on the trapeze or spinning in a human hamster wheel without a harness, they see a fleeting moment that is said to have divine impact.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024

We chased and wrestled each other in the sand, played somersault and running games.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

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

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

“It doesn’t seem to slow K.B. down because he’s still doing somersaults and flips and all those other things,” Kelly said, “so maybe he’s just setting a tone for the toughness of this football team.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2023

As I washed my hands and stared at my face in the mirror, my stomach was suddenly doing 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

LeBron James somersaulted onto his feet and pounded his chest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2022

Pulisic somersaulted off both hands and landed hard.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2021

As he somersaulted into a clump of nettles in the ditch bottom, he remembered vividly the scent of beanflowers at sunset.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

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

Humans’ love of spinning around in circles, especially during childhood, is evidenced by the enduring popularity of playground merry-go-rounds, revolving fun park rides and the irresistible draw of somersaulting down a hill.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2023

Taryn jumped harder and higher, somersaulting and flipping, sending Ivy’s body bouncing around the trampoline like a rubber ball.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake