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somersault
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Somersault \Som"er*sault\, Somerset \Som"er*set\, n. [F.
soubresaut a jump, leap, OF. soubresault, It. soprassalto an
overleap, fr. L. supra over + saltus a leap, fr. salire to
leap; or the French may be from Sp. sobresalto a sudden
asault, a surprise. See Supra, and Salient.]
A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and
lights upon his feet; a turning end over end. [Written also
summersault, sommerset, summerset, etc.] ``The
vaulter's sombersalts.''
--Donne.
Now I'll only
Make him break his neck in doing a sommerset.
--Beau. &
Fl.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1845, from somersault (n.). Related: Somersaulted; somersaulting.
Wiktionary
n. (context chiefly gymnastics English) Starting on one's feet, an instance of rotating one's body 360 ° while airborne, with one's feet going over one's head. vb. To perform a somersault.
WordNet
n. an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return [syn: somersaulting, flip]
v. do a somersault
Wikipedia
A somersault (also flip, heli, and in gymnastics salto) is an acrobatic exercise in which a person's body rotates 360° around a horizontal axis with the feet passing over the head. A somersault can be performed forwards, backwards, or sideways and can be executed in the air or on the ground. When performed on the ground it is typically called a roll. Somersault originates from an obsolete French word, sombresault, from Occitan sobresaut; and ultimately Latin – supra, "over", and saltus, "jump".
Somersault is a 2004 Australian independent film written and directed by Cate Shortland, featuring Abbie Cornish and Sam Worthington. Shot in the winter of 2003, the film was released in September 2004 and screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. It also swept the field at the 2004 Australian Film Institute Awards, winning every single feature film award (13 in total).
Exploring the themes of human sexuality and emotion, Somersault is about a 16-year-old girl named Heidi (Cornish) who flees her Canberra home to the mountain town of Jindabyne in New South Wales. There she meets Joe (Worthington), the son of a local farmer, and gradually forms a relationship with him, despite his difficulty in expressing his emotions. He also seems to be unsure of his sexual orientation, despite having better than average luck meeting girls.
The soundtrack is written and performed by Australian band Decoder Ring—their song "Somersault" plays during the end credits. Some scenes were shot at the Ryrie homestead at Michelago, New South Wales.
Somersault is Swedish Indie Pop band Eggstone's second album, which was first released in Sweden in March 1994. A US release appeared later that year on BMG label Critique Records. The song "The Dog" was issued as a promotional single and became a hit on various college radio stations. The album was re-issued on vinyl in 1997 by Vibrafon Records.
Somersault is Chicane's third official studio album, released on 23 July 2007. It is Chicane's first album self-released on producer and songwriter Nick Bracegirdle's independent record label, Modena Records.
Somersault is an acrobatic exercise in which a person does a full 360° flip.
Somersault may also refer to:
- Somersault (Chicane album), 2007
- Somersault (Eggstone album), 1994
- Somersault (film), a 2004 Australian independent film
- Somersault (novel), a novel by Kenzaburō Ōe
- "Somersault", a 2004 song by Zero 7 featuring Sia
Somersault (宙返り Chūgaeri) is a 1999 novel by Kenzaburō Ōe. It is about two former leaders of a religious cult as they try to establish a new movement, a possible nuclear catastrophe, and religious sects in everyday society. It received inspiration from the Aum Shinrikyo cult and their Tokyo subway sarin attack of 1995. The English translation, by Philip Gabriel, first appeared in 2003. It was Ōe's first novel since he won the 1994 literature Nobel Prize. It was published in the United States by Grove Press. The book was published in the United Kingdom by Atlantic Books.
"Somersault" is a song by the British band Zero 7 featuring Sia. It was released in May 2004 as the second single taken from the bands second studio album When It Falls. It is the second time Zero 7 had featured Sia on a single release, following their 2001 single, " Destiny".
The song includes the memorable lines: "You put my feet back on the ground/ Did you know you brought me around/ You were sweet, and you were sound/ You saved me."
Usage examples of "somersault".
A somersaulting shape, the pygmy killer was tossed beyond the crumbling mass of stone and dirt that entombed a dozen helpless people within the Aureole Mine.
The shotgun somersaulted into the screaming wind as Van Dusen plowed into Bonhomme, knocking him from his feet.
Little Ivan, in cap and bells, somersaulted round the ring as if emancipated altogether from the bipedal posture until he bumped into Buffo somersaulting round the ring in the other direction.
The shock of water blasted Buffo back into one single form, blasted him off his feet, blasted him up into the air in the final somersault of his career, and then flattened him on his back.
He somersaulted, flipped, spotted Electro hovering just above him on a crackling arc of sheer energy.
He had time to glimpse a tiny boat with two petrified faces looking up, and beyond it the misty outline of the icebreaker, and dominating all a massive, ice-speckled black wave, a malign, living entity taller than the ship, and in the seconds while he somersaulted towards the Arctic water, Findhorn knew he was about to die.
In automatic chivalry he caught them with his extended left arm whilst holding her off the floor with his right, causing the pair of them to execute a strangely slow somersault and bounce apart on the soft floor.
The klezmer music somersaulted in the street, bumped up the stone wall, swan-dived into the canal.
The dwarves cartwheeled and somersaulted, lopping off first her ears, then her nose and finally her lips.
It occurred to me that the movement of the amputated knob perfectly schematized what it would look like for someone to try to turn somersaults with one hand nailed to the floor.
Gnashing my mandibles with glee, I followed him through with an extra-special reverse somersault with octal hitchkick.
Not even Rosalind, turning somersaults on the sonogram, had made Cynthia feel this vital, this necessary.
I thought she would kill herself, so much did she struggle, but the chain was solid, the bed heavy and, though at the end of this hurricane, frantic capers, somersaults and jerks fit to strangle her waist, the bed had landed all askew at the other end of the room, Sylva, for her part, found herself lying on the ground, exhausted and breathless as on the day of the hunt after the hounds had pursued her.
The men each held an end of a long bamboo pole that they were whipping and twanging up and down, while the girl used it very like a tightrope, and almost as skillfully as Autumn Auburn or Monday Simms, letting it toss her into leaps and flips and somersaults, but always landing again on the bamboo.
Al hung upside down, still seated on the unicycle, six feet in the air over the head of the catcher, motionless, sailing forward in a long somersault.