Crossword clues for cartwheel
cartwheel
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
cartwheel \cartwheel\ v. i. 1 to perform a cartwheel[2].
Syn: do cartwheels.
cartwheel \cartwheel\ n.
the type of wheel used on a cart; it typically has wooden spokes and a metal rim.
an acrobatic maneuver in which the arms and legs are outstretched like the spokes of a wheel, and the body is turned sideways through one or more revolutions, by first touching the hands and then the feet to the ground, in rapid succession so as to mimic the rolling of a wheel; in the course of this feat, the person performing it is alternately upright and upside-down.
a silver dollar; a dollar made of silver. [Colloq.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The literal wheel of a cart. 2 A gymnastic maneuver whereby the gymnast rotates to one side or the other while keeping arms and legs outstretched, spinning for one or more revolutions. 3 (context UK historical obsolete slang English) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings. 4 (context US historical obsolete slang English) A silver dollar of the larger size produced before 1979. vb. 1 To perform the gymnastics feat of a cartwheel. 2 To flip end over end: normally said of a crashing vehicle or aircraft.
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 using both hands and feet
Wikipedia
A cartwheel is a sideways rotary movement of the body. It is performed by bringing the hands to the floor one at a time while the body inverts. The legs travel over the body trunk while one or both hands are on the floor, and then the feet return to the floor one at a time, ending with the performer standing upright. It is performed in a variety of athletic activities, including acro dance and some types of Indian dance, in gymnastics, and in the martial art of capoeira. It is called a cartwheel because the performer's arms and legs move in a fashion similar to the spokes of a turning wheel. In classical Indian Karana dance, it is called talavilasitam, and in capoeira is called aú.
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.