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somersault
(redirected from somersaulting)

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somersault, summersault
1. 
a. a forward roll in which the head is placed on the ground and the trunk and legs are turned over it
b. a similar roll in a backward direction
2. an acrobatic feat in which either of these rolls are performed in midair, as in diving or gymnastics


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Toward the end of his filmmaking phase, Goldstein began deploying animation, most famously in The Jump, 1978, in which footage of a high diver is transformed, via rotoscoping, into the strange vision of a glimmering figure somersaulting into a void.
PASADENA - From the kickoff to the final tick of the Rose Bowl clock in the 74th USC-UCLA football game Saturday afternoon, Reggie Bush did whatever was superhumanly possible - cutting, spinning, even somersaulting - to avoid the grasp of larger men.
The dancers took turns leaping and somersaulting over hay bales piled high, then stood the bales on end and delighted in knocking them over.
 
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