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Acrobatic feat
Answer for the clue "Acrobatic feat ", 9 letters:
cartwheel
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Word definitions for cartwheel in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
cartwheel \cartwheel\ v. i. 1 to perform a cartwheel[2] . Syn: do cartwheels.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "wheel of a cart," from cart (n.) + wheel (n.). Meaning "lateral somersault" is recorded from 1861; as a verb from 1907. Related: Cartwheeled ; cartwheeling .\n
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A cartwheel is a wheel of a cart . It may also mean: Cartwheel (gymnastics) , an acrobatic maneuver Cartwheel Galaxy Cartwheel hat , worn by women
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a wheel that has wooden spokes and a metal rim acrobatic revolutions with the body turned sideways and the arms and legs outstretched like the spokes of a wheel a dollar made of silver [syn: silver dollar ] v. do cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB turn ▪ He tried to brake with this ice-axe but started turning great cartwheels , bouncing all the way down. ▪ The waiter, Helen thought, was only waiting for the nod and he would turn cartwheels . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ...
Usage examples of cartwheel.
I saw this pre-teen girl doing cartwheels on her front lawn, back and forth, slowly and sweetly, as if she were performing all those actions as absentmindedly as a Ferris wheel.
It contained matching nested picnic boxes lacquered in black with an allover design of golden cartwheels in a golden stream.
They seemed to share my longing for my mother who already embodied for me the beauty of youth, who had the shiny-haired, smooth-cheeked vitality my grandparents did not have, who could do backbends and cartwheels and who owned high heeled shoes in fifteen colors who became ever more precious for her elusiveness.
Among them were several young women of the Blessed Damozel school, who wore flowing garments of sap-green or orche, or puffed raiment of Venetian red, and among whom the cartwheel hat, the Elizabethan sleeve, and the Toby frill were conspicuous.
Clover Lee, who retired only to a respectful distance, and there began practicing flip-flops and cartwheels to display her legs and under parts to best advantage.
They had watched the friends of their youth skitter and cartwheel and remembered the quick splashes and the slow falling of the spray.
She took two skipping steps, pitched forward and performed the start of a reasonable cartwheel.
Ublala seemed to slap at them along the flat, and one of the swords cartwheeled through the air.
Instead, Monday, Quincy and the three Chinese cartwheeled into the pista, beckoned Brutus onto the teeterboard and, as she seesawed happily, did their poses and pyramids and leapfrogging on her back.
Phegeus is flung backward off the chariot, striking the ground and cartwheeling several times, the spear breaking off and splintering as the corpse tumbles to a stop in the dust of the chariot he had been riding five seconds before.
Most of the pew broke away and showered the temple below with shards of wood as the gigantic missile cartwheeled away from the roof vault.
Blazing wreckage cartwheeled slowly down through the atmospheres of unsuspecting planets.
The young man spun, cartwheeling like a tattered doll through the air.
The Jhag was thrown backward, leaving his feet, his sword cartwheeling away to clatter on the slope of the rockfall.
She set it back down, and we watched as it began working its way across the surface of the barnacle patch, doing its slow, ungainly cartwheels, wobbling off-true, lurching in flight, nearly missing its landing, but somehow making it, somehow getting there.