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Meanings of somersaulting 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.

salt mortal
Usage of somersaulting in English
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Savagi screeched and tumbled back, somersaulting to land a few feet away.
Samurai
2
This week sterling has been a veritable Tom Daley, somersaulting downward.
The Guardian
3
She takes a deep breath, twists, and in an instant she is somersaulting.
A Grandpa's Notebook / Ideas, Models, Stories and Memoirs to Enc...
4
The slake-moth was tenacious, somersaulting around its prey, refusing to let it escape.
Perdido Street Station
5
The bucket tipped from behind her, somersaulting toward the water's edge.
Mysterious Skin
6
Iome sprang thirty feet in the air, somersaulting as she did.
The Lair of Bones
7
A few faded playing cards blew past, somersaulting in the wind.
Once
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The water was bright with fins; there were even dolphins somersaulting through the air.
The Long Earth
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I grabbed Indigo's hand and pressed it to my breast, above my somersaulting heart.
Shadowglass: the shadowfae chronicles
10
Buildings don't break apart and go somersaulting through the air.
The last page
11
Sanders capped Pittsburgh's longest play of the season by somersaulting into the end zone.
Reuters
12
Gordon bent his head sharply, and dropped, falling onto his shoulders and somersaulting over.
Police Your Planet
13
She flew high above his head, somersaulting over the bandit to land behind him.
Brave New World
14
They threw themselves around in their cages, somersaulting, screeching and berating the wire mesh.
Complete Books of Blood
15
When I don't come somersaulting into a room, people tend to ask if I'm ill.
The Guardian
16
The guard whose foot had been planted on his spine went somersaulting into the air.
The irish warrior
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Translations for somersaulting
Somersaulting through the time