somersaults

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After a Red Bull aerobatic helicopter improbably flipped over its rotor and pulled itself out of a dive at the last second, a group of children near the shore started imitating the maneuver in somersaults.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2025

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

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 I washed my hands and stared at my face in the mirror, my stomach was suddenly doing somersaults.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles