He turned a somersault.
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Somersault
//ˈsʌməˌsɒlt//
Synonyms for "somersault" (35 found)
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Closest matches (7)
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Related words (17)
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4 entriesis a
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7 entriesTranslations
106 translations across 46 languages.
Aromanian
1 entries- tumbã noun (the act of going head over heels)
Bulgarian
2 entries- салто noun (the act of going head over heels)
- правя салто verb (to perform somersault)
Catalan
1 entries- tombarella noun (the act of going head over heels)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 打關斗 /打关斗 verb (to perform somersault)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 筋斗 noun (the act of going head over heels)
- 跟頭 /跟头 noun (the act of going head over heels)
- 翻筋斗 verb (to perform somersault)
- 翻跟頭 /翻跟头 verb (to perform somersault)
Czech
4 entries- kotrmelec noun (the act of going head over heels)
- salto noun (the act of going head over heels)
- dělat kotrmelec verb (to perform somersault)
- dělat salto verb (to perform somersault)
Danish
1 entries- saltomortale noun (the act of going head over heels)
Dutch
1 entries- salto noun (the act of going head over heels)
Estonian
2 entries- kukerpall noun (the act of going head over heels)
- salto noun (the act of going head over heels)
Finnish
2 entries- voltti noun (the act of going head over heels)
- tehdä voltti verb (to perform somersault)
French
3 entries- galipette noun (the act of going head over heels)
- salto noun (the act of going head over heels)
- saut périlleux noun (the act of going head over heels)
Galician
4 entries- chumbalagato noun (the act of going head over heels)
- pinchacarneiro noun (the act of going head over heels)
- pinchagato noun (the act of going head over heels)
- pirueta noun (the act of going head over heels)
Georgian
4 entries- გადაკოტრიალება noun (the act of going head over heels)
- გადატრიალება noun (the act of going head over heels)
- მალაყი noun (the act of going head over heels)
- მიწაზე გადატრიალება noun (the act of going head over heels)
German
4 entries- Kopsibolter noun (the act of going head over heels)
- Purzelbaum noun (the act of going head over heels)
- Salto noun (the act of going head over heels)
- Überschlag noun (the act of going head over heels)
Greek
2 entries- κυβίστηση noun (the act of going head over heels)
- τούμπα noun (the act of going head over heels)
Hebrew
2 entries- גִּלְגּוּל noun (the act of going head over heels)
- סַלְטָה noun (the act of going head over heels)
Hungarian
4 entries- bukfenc noun (the act of going head over heels)
- szaltó noun (the act of going head over heels)
- bukfencet vet verb (to perform somersault)
- bukfencezik verb (to perform somersault)
Icelandic
2 entries- heljarstökk noun (the act of going head over heels)
- kollhnís noun (the act of going head over heels)
Ido
2 entries- kulbuto noun (the act of going head over heels)
- kulbutar verb (to perform somersault)
Irish
1 entries- aer-rothlú noun (the act of going head over heels)
Italian
1 entries- capriola noun (the act of going head over heels)
Japanese
1 entries- 宙返り noun (the act of going head over heels)
Kazakh
1 entries- сальто noun (the act of going head over heels)
Korean
1 entries- 공중제비 noun (the act of going head over heels)
Latgalian
1 entries- kiuliņs noun (the act of going head over heels)
Latvian
1 entries- kūlenis noun (the act of going head over heels)
Macedonian
1 entries- са́лто noun (the act of going head over heels)
Maltese
1 entries- kukrumbajsa noun (the act of going head over heels)
Māori
4 entries- pōteketeke noun (the act of going head over heels)
- pōtēteke noun (the act of going head over heels)
- turupeke noun (the act of going head over heels)
- pōteketeke verb (to perform somersault)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- salto noun (the act of going head over heels)
- saltomortale noun (the act of going head over heels)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- salto noun (the act of going head over heels)
- saltomortale noun (the act of going head over heels)
Polish
3 entries- koziołek noun (the act of going head over heels)
- przewrót noun (the act of going head over heels)
- salto noun (the act of going head over heels)
Portuguese
3 entries- cambalhota noun (the act of going head over heels)
- salto mortal noun (the act of going head over heels)
- dar um mortal verb (to perform somersault)
Romanian
2 entries- rostogolire noun (the act of going head over heels)
- tumbă noun (the act of going head over heels)
Russian
3 entries- кувыро́к noun (the act of going head over heels)
- кульби́т noun (the act of going head over heels)
- са́льто noun (the act of going head over heels)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- car a' mhuiltein noun (the act of going head over heels)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- salto noun (the act of going head over heels)
- praviti salto verb (to perform somersault)
- skakati salto verb (to perform somersault)
Slovak
3 entries- kotrmelec noun (the act of going head over heels)
- kotúľ noun (the act of going head over heels)
- salto noun (the act of going head over heels)
Spanish
3 entries- salto mortal noun (the act of going head over heels)
- volatín noun (the act of going head over heels)
- voltereta noun (the act of going head over heels)
Swahili
1 entries- kichwangomba noun (the act of going head over heels)
Swedish
2 entries- kullerbytta noun (the act of going head over heels)
- göra en kullerbyta verb (to perform somersault)
Tagalog
2 entries- balintong noun (the act of going head over heels)
- bumalintong verb (to perform somersault)
Turkish
1 entries- perende noun (the act of going head over heels)
Ukrainian
3 entries- пере́верт noun (the act of going head over heels)
- пере́кид noun (the act of going head over heels)
- са́льто noun (the act of going head over heels)
Vietnamese
2 entries- lộn noun (the act of going head over heels)
- nhào lộn noun (the act of going head over heels)
Welsh
2 entries- tin-dros-ben noun (the act of going head over heels)
- trosben noun (the act of going head over heels)
Sample sentences
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Tom did a somersault.
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Tom turned a somersault.
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Mary did a somersault.
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