somersault

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

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 I walk in, Alex gives me a charming, crooked smile, which makes my stomach do a somersault.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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

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

More importantly, she knows each kid’s skills and learning style — and she will turn somersaults to tailor programs to fit, even if that requires bucking the rule books.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 24, 2023

My stomach doesn’t just flip, it does high-wire somersaults without a net.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

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

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

The boy somersaulted through the breakers, then eventually found the ground beneath him.

From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2020

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, he adds.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

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

The rocket cleared the launch tower and soared into the sky for a few minutes before somersaulting and exploding in midair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2023

The somersaulting journey can leave some fish bruised and unwilling to eat for days.

From Science Magazine ● Feb. 9, 2023

One friend even gave her the bunk bed that Ashley and I would sleep on—I immediately started swinging and somersaulting from the wooden slats under the top bunk and nearly destroyed several of them!

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles