SOMERSAULT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of somersault in English

(Definition of somersault from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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Examples of somersault

somersault
When being pushed, the clown makes somersaults down the ramp onto the pillow.
All the while the performers walked or bounced out from the side of the building, turning somersaults or colliding.
Their study suggested indeed that experts' somersaults are continuously regulated with respect to a prospective visual variable (the first order time to contact relating to the ground surface).
He manages not only to ride five or six horses galloping in several directions but to perform somersaults on at least two of them.
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He wriggles, twists and turns at every opportunity to defend the somersault that he has made since 1977.
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I want some assurance that between this year and next he is not going to turn another somersault.
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I should like an explanation of why they have performed such a somersault in opinion.
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I prefer the somersault which he performed this afternoon to his recent performance as an equestrian.
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The people will not be deceived by such somersaults.
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It is nonsense for a man to turn round, somersault and twist as he has done in a matter of 24 or 48 hours.
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When we change our policy, we have turned a somersault.
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This year, we have been treated to a similar saga of somersaults.
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I am now becoming used to these somersaults.
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I quite agree that they are well-feed somersaults, but they cost a great deal of time as well as a great deal of money.
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We have had a reversal and a somersault since devaluation.
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Translations of somersault

in Chinese (Traditional)
筋斗…
in Chinese (Simplified)
筋斗…
in Spanish
voltereta, voltereta [feminine, singular]…
in Portuguese
cambalhota, salto mortal [masculine]…
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宙返り, とんぼ返り, 宙返(ちゅうがえ)り…
takla, perende, parende…
saut [masculine] périlleux, culbute, faire la culbute…
tombarella…
salto, een salto maken…
saltomortale, kolbøtte, lave en saltomortale…
kullerbytta, volt, saltomortal…
balik kuang, membuat balik kuang…
der Purzelbaum, einen Purzelbaum schlagen…
salto [masculine], saltomortale, kollbøtte…
перекидання, сальто, перекидатися…
сальто…
شَقْلَبة…
přemet, udělat přemet…
jungkir balik, berjungkir balik…
การตีลังกา, ตีลังกา…
cú nhảy lộn nhào, biểu diễn nhào lộn…
fikołek, koziołek, przewrót…
재주넘기…
capriola, fare una capriola…
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