Back-flip dive with normal start

Usage examples of gainer.

Hitherto the lottery had always been a gainer, but its late loss could not have come at a worse time.

My fair neighbour, at the end of the game, which lasted four hours, found herself the gainer of a few sequins, but the officer, who had played on his word of honour, after losing all the money in his pockets, owed ten louis.

Even so late as the year 1777, in which the last treaty of boundaries was signed at San Ildefonso, Portugal was the gainer, though not so greatly as by the former treaties of 1681 and 1750.

Hitherto the lottery had always been a gainer, but its late loss could not have come at a worse time.

It may seem strange to say so, but it strikes one as quite conceivable that the world might have been a gainer if fate had kept Coleridge a little longer in the ranks than the four months of his actual service.

Dick should forthwith be punished by death, but Negoro whispered to them that they would assuredly be the gainers by delay, and they accordingly contented themselves with ordering the youth to be placed under strict supervision.

But on my telling her that I would give her double the sum she was to be paid for her witchcraft, and that thus she would be the gainer and not a loser in complying with my demands, she became calm once more.

I stood before her with an open knife, and would not suffer her to pass. But on my telling her that I would give her double the sum she was to be paid for her witchcraft, and that thus she would be the gainer and not a loser in complying with my demands, she became calm once more.

This was a mortifying declaration to the plaintiff, though he condoled himself with the hope of being a gainer by the loss of his eye, and now the pain was over would have been very sorry to find his sight retrieved.

In regular bounds the white haired girl vaulted and spun against the sky: back triple somersault, front triple somersault, half gainer, recovery, full gainer, recovery, jack-knife opening backwards in a reverse swan, triple back, then triple front again.

Then a straight candle through a quadruple back into a full gainer, closing with a double forward before she hit the elastic for the last time.

For all the world, it had to look like I was leaping into a full gainer over the driveway.

My mind did a leap and a half gainer and landed back where it started.

She stood up to wave at Pat and promptly executed a near-perfect half gainer off the cart, ending with a face-plant in the mud.

Somehow, Rick managed to throw himself into a half gainer, and landed almost feet first in the black waters of the canal.