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Meanings of somersault in English
Catalan
salt mortal Spanish
salto mortal An acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return.
Synonyms
Examples for "flip"
Examples for "flip"
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That'd be misleading, unnecessarily flip, and would result in missing body parts.
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And if you really need to flip paper pages on your calendar?
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Another indicator is sometimes startling flip-flops on labor law issues, experts said.
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We need to flip those ratios to come back a second season.
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This might not be the best time to flip that switch, however.
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Flooded properties on the Somerset Levels near Bridgwater, UK, earlier this year.
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Update: Land invasion operation in progress in Somerset West has been cleared.
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That was when Somerset played the Indians the year after the war.
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Graham Satchell reports from Somerset where the issue of dredging remains contentious.
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He is currently said to live in Somerset West near Cape Town.
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The mule run away with his plow and throwed him a summerset.
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Over rocks and stumps, on one of which the coach narrowly escaped turning a summerset.
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And at this moment we saw him actually perform a summerset backward, and disappear in the water.
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Why, to my notion, Sir John, there isn't a dog on 'arth that can take such a summerset.
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Fresh horses-forwardagain, faster than before-overrocks and stumps, on one of which the coach narrowly escaped turning a summerset.
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Savagi screeched and tumbled back, somersaulting to land a few feet away.
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This week sterling has been a veritable Tom Daley, somersaulting downward.
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She takes a deep breath, twists, and in an instant she is somersaulting.
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The slake-moth was tenacious, somersaulting around its prey, refusing to let it escape.
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The bucket tipped from behind her, somersaulting toward the water's edge.
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The 36-year-old celebrated his goal with a summersault, reminiscent of his younger days.
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And the same thing with gymnastics with like a straight back summersault with a twist.
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Mike, thet summersault war good enough fer a show.
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The 31-year-old from Pyongyang stuttered backwards following his first vault - a piked double front summersault with half twist.
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At this moment, however, the line slackened suddenly, and the fish threw himself clean out of the water, turning a complete summersault.
Usage of somersault in English
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And with the recovery of the name Quin's mind did another somersault.
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Here he turned a perfect somersault, if words could perform the feat.
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But, by the way, you might get up and do a somersault.
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Ours went a side-somersault, and the next one endways, on its wheels.
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For, just then, the little yellow dog stumbled, and turned a somersault.
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Yang Hak-seon won the men's vault with his spectacular triple-twisting front somersault.
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He did a backward somersault, feet and legs snapping over his head.
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With the explosion the moose seemed to somersault in the air.
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He had tried the double somersault in the schoolroom that morning.
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The 36-year-old celebrated his goal with a somersault, reminiscent of his younger days.
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First of all, there was a simple somersault from the springboard.
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Then Belle gave it a try and did a perfect somersault.
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He made the rabbit turn a somersault by suddenly pressing the bulb hard.
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For some reason Martins is not performing his trademark somersault at the prospect.
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Not one of them turned a somersault or uttered a shout.
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He was afraid she was going to turn a back somersault.
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Somersault across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common