0 a rolling movement or jump, either forwards or backwards, in which you turn over completely, with your body above your head, and finish with your head on top again -- 筋斗
When being pushed, the clown makes somersaults down the ramp onto the pillow.
All the while the performers walked or bounced out from the side of the building, turning somersaults or colliding.
Their study suggested indeed that experts' somersaults are continuously regulated with respect to a prospective visual variable (the first order time to contact relating to the ground surface).
He manages not only to ride five or six horses galloping in several directions but to perform somersaults on at least two of them.
He wriggles, twists and turns at every opportunity to defend the somersault that he has made since 1977.
I want some assurance that between this year and next he is not going to turn another somersault.
I should like an explanation of why they have performed such a somersault in opinion.
I prefer the somersault which he performed this afternoon to his recent performance as an equestrian.
