Usually means: Flip performed by rotating body.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. somersault: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. somersault: Merriam-Webster
  3. somersault: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. somersault: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. somersault: Collins English Dictionary
  6. somersault: Vocabulary.com
  7. Somersault, somersault: Wordnik
  8. somersault: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. somersault: Wiktionary
  10. somersault: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. somersault (summersault): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. somersault: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. somersault: Dictionary.com
  14. somersault: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. somersault: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Somersault (Beach Fossils album), Somersault (Chicane album), Somersault (Eggstone album), Somersault (film), Somersault (movie), Somersault (song), Somersault: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Somersault: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. somersault: Rhymezone
  19. somersault: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. somersault: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. somersault: FreeDictionary.org
  22. somersault: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Somersault: The Word Detective
  24. somersault: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. somersault: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. somersault: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Somersault: Sports Definitions

(Note: See somersaulting as well.)

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▸ noun:  Starting on one's feet, an instance of rotating one's body 360 degrees while airborne or on the ground, with one's feet passing over one's head.
▸ verb:  To perform a somersault.

Similar:
flip, sommerset, Somerset, summersault, summerset, salto, supersault, handspring, soubresaut, tumbleset, more...

Opposite:
straight jump, standing jump, upright jump

Types:
handspring, tuck, pike, layout, more...

Phrases:
forward somersault, somersault in the air, more...

Adjectives:
complete, double, back, backward, forward, triple, front, half, political, mental, full

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Similar:
flip, sommerset, Somerset, summersault, summerset, salto, supersault, handspring, soubresaut, tumbleset, more...

Opposite:
straight jump, standing jump, upright jump

Types:
handspring, tuck, pike, layout, more...

Phrases:
forward somersault, somersault in the air, more...

Adjectives:
complete, double, back, backward, forward, triple, front, half, political, mental, full

Colors:
    blue,     green,     yellow,     red,     orange, more...



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