summersault
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Larry Nance Jr. only scored four but two were on a thunderous dunk that had teammate Young doing a summersault on the sideline.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2015
The Galaxy have shaken off most of the rust since that game, with the critical return of Omar Gonazlez to the back line and Robbie Keane finding reason to summersault game after game.
From The Guardian • Nov. 27, 2012
Opening with Falstaff the present repertoire included Manon, La Boheme, Romeo and Juliet, Parsifal,�excuses for every summersault possible to Argentine emotions.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have seen every soul on board sea-sick while she crawled up, up, up one mountainous wave after another, plunging down into the abysses between them as if she would really turn a complete summersault.
From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Bullen, Frank T.
"I'd have just said I couldn't," giggled Sunny Boy, trying to turn a summersault on the bed.
From Sunny Boy in the Big City by Wrenn, Charles L. (Charles Lewis)
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