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Somersault   /sˈəmərsˌɔlt/   Listen
Somersault

noun
(Written also summersault, sommerset, summerset, etc)
1.
An acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return.  Synonyms: flip, somersaulting, somerset, summersault, summerset.
verb
1.
Do a somersault.



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"Somersault" Quotes from Famous Books



... that you could keep; for, if it went, you couldn't get it back. It left you bare, like those trees when they lost their leaves; barer and barer until you, too, withered and came down. And, by a queer somersault of thought, he seemed to see not Annette lying up there behind that window-pane on which the sun was shining, but Irene lying in their bedroom in Montpellier Square, as it might conceivably have been her fate to lie, sixteen years ago. Would he have hesitated then? Not a moment! Operate, ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... face over and over again. The lady-bugs wept many tears, because they could not go with the company; the crickets chirped rather gloomily, because none with short limbs could go on the journey; while Daddy Long-legs almost turned a somersault for joy when told he might carry a bundle in the train. All being in readiness, the procession was to start at six o'clock in the morning. The exact minute was to be announced by the time-keeper of the mansion, Flea san, whose house was on the back of Neko, a great black cat, who ...
— Japanese Fairy World - Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan • William Elliot Griffis

... he, 'since it changes to sweetness whatever I eat and drink, it will sweeten my voice also, so that the Plough will obey.' So he put the ring between his lips and whistled; and at the sound his heart turned a somersault for joy, for he felt that out of his mouth the farmer's magic had ...
— The Field of Clover • Laurence Housman

... is taking us slap up against it," said Turly. A few minutes later they went bang into a rock; the boat made a somersault, flung the children high and dry, and "ran off with itself, laughing", as ...
— Terry - Or, She ought to have been a Boy • Rosa Mulholland

... into three fractions, has decided, one for the ministerial compromise, another for the exclusion of the State, and the third for the exclusion of the corporations. So that today no more than before do the public or M. Arago, in spite of their somersault, know ...
— The Philosophy of Misery • Joseph-Pierre Proudhon


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