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summersault

British  
/ ˈsʌməˌsɔːlt /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of somersault

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

Does he turn a summersault or stick his tail between his ears and go over backward?'

From The Boy Scouts Book of Stories by Louderback, Walt

At this moment, however, the line slackened suddenly, and the fish threw himself clean out of the water, turning a complete summersault.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various