What is "cartwheeling"

Usage examples of "cartwheeling".

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.

If the seas are running thirty feet, we don't stand a very good chance of hitting the water without digging a wing and cartwheeling, and with this huge opening in the side, the bird will sink instantly, even if she doesn't break up.

She remembered being about ten metres in the air at one point, cartwheeling slowly as a single storey café did a neat somersault beside her to land on its flat roof, power cables and plastic water pipes trailing from a wall to lash about like bullwhips.

But she slammed to a stop at the end and then began cartwheeling and back flipping nearly as fast back to where the group was sitting with open mouths.

Then the sand rippled and jumped, as if all the sand crabs were simultaneously struck with apoplexy, and white bones began poking up out of it and rolling and cartwheeling together into a pile.

Sherrine imagined the beds cartwheeling and bursting into flame like stock cars going out of control.