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cartwheel

[ UK /kˈɑːtwiːl/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑɹtˌwiɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a dollar made of silver
  2. a wheel that has wooden spokes and a metal rim
  3. acrobatic revolutions with the body turned sideways and the arms and legs outstretched like the spokes of a wheel
VERB
  1. do cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement using both hands and feet

How To Use cartwheel In A Sentence

  • The undulating holloway, which has itself sunk through the steady erosion of cartwheels and hooves up to fifteen feet beneath the hillside, translates you from the present into an earlier era when John Nash carved out his woodcuts in English boxwood at the kitchen table under a single lamp-bulb and cultivated the half-wild garden. Wildwood
  • Arsenal, where he can look forward to becoming instantly gripped with a crazed case of the cartwheeling jitters, learning to flap wildly at any kind of cross and generally buying into the idea of goalkeeping as a business of leaping about athletically saving penalties in between diving over the top of toe-poked 40-yard back passes. The Guardian World News
  • There's a girl doing a cartwheel on the sand in one shot; noses are pressed up against the blurry lens in another. Panama, Ho!
  • Now aged 81, Keleti remains full of energy and is still able to turn cartwheels.
  • When Ms. Aston and her compatriots appeared in traditional Martha Graham attire, Bracie and Ashleigh went wild; they fist-pumped eagerly at their mother's cartwheel. Arts Patrons Kick In a Dance Performance
  • In several places we each went sprawling, clawing at tufts of dead grass to stop ourselves from cartwheeling down the mountain.
  • I could see a log flip upwards, tumbling end over end to hit the ground and cartwheel to a standstill like a caber.
  • But as I was coming in to land, I went through some turbulence and, as I tried to brake, one side of the canopy collapsed and I went cartwheeling out of control.
  • The first and most likely type to have been used in the Saxon period, is basically a cartwheel mounted horizontally on a pivot, the wheel being rotated by hand or with a stick.
  • As Izzy looked on, impotent in disbelief, his body performed a slow cartwheel around the railing. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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