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Relative of a cartwheel
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handspring
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alt. A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground. n. A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
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n. an acrobatic feat in which a person goes from a standing position to a handstand and back again
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A handspring is an acrobatic move in which a person executes a complete revolution of the body by lunging headfirst from an upright position into a vertical position and then pushing off (i.e., "springing") from the floor with the hands so as to leap back ...
Usage examples of handspring.
In addition to the Chanel she was wearing a white silk dress and that quizzical, half-amused smile that made most of the other officers turn mental cartwheels and handsprings but served only to irritate me.
Between handsprings and whirligigs he delivered his message that would save the world.
Bowing deeply, he gave a mocking salute to the despoiled tourist and melted into the ensemble of dancers as the next soloist leaped into a series of handsprings and the caravan with its eerie, wailing Fiata moved onward toward the Baguette.
The man had done everything but handsprings trying to convince Torch to stay on.
He performed some preliminary chest beating and handsprings, largely to get attention.
When the lightning cracked I jumped higher and when the thunder clapped I roared like a lion and then I did a handspring and then I rolled in the grass like a cub and I chewed the grass and spit it out for them and I pounded my chest like a gorilla and all the time I could see the Czerny exercises resting on the piano, the white page full of sharps and flats, and the fucking idiot, think I to myself, imagining that that's the way to learn how to manipulate the well-tempered clavichord.
It was of Dorothy that Ozma was thinking, as she watched Scraps turning reckless handsprings under the tulip trees.