somersaults

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Stone knits puppets and vaudeville acts, songs and somersaults, as well as melds two groups of people who might not have shared a lunch table in high school — the jocks and the theater geeks.

From Seattle Times • May 28, 2024

In China, the extremely agile Zhou Quan set a record for the highest number of consecutive leg full twist back somersaults, managing 11 in a row.

From Reuters • Nov. 16, 2023

“It doesn’t seem to slow K.B. down because he’s still doing somersaults and flips and all those other things,” Kelly said, “so maybe he’s just setting a tone for the toughness of this football team.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2023

Waiting outside the train station to meet their birth mother for the first time, Neil's stomach is doing nervous somersaults.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2023

As if he had solved the problem, and was tickled to death about it, the big monkey turned a few somersaults.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls