Arca

The only thing that mattered to me with 'Xen' was setting things up against each other in an uncomfortable way. If there's a really soft piece of music, and then you're hit by a painful explosive sound, your brain does this funny somersault trying to make sense of why this happened. And at that very moment, your brain is malleable.

Venezuelan Musician

Juan Gabriel

I'm a person who, when I set out to write, I write. It's just like when you set out to eat, you eat, or when you set out to sleep, you sleep. I don't do somersaults to write something. I just do it.

Mexican Musician

Kate Nash

I never thought I could do certain things like somersaults and jumping off the ropes and flips. When you actually learn to do it, you're really amazed with what your body can do.

English Musician

Donald O'Connor

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.

Musician

Nick Hornby

The most important thing for me is realism. I don't like writing which does somersaults on the page, and I'm no great fan of the hard work literary novel.

English Writer

Stephen Fry

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

British Comedian

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

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Filipino Musician

Somersault often refers to skillful gymnastic moves requiring practice and flexibility.

Physical Skill

'Somersault' can be used casually to describe playful movements, not just professional gymnastics.

Casual Usage

Somersault can depict a sudden or complete change in opinion or situation, as if turning over.

Figurative Sense

When used as a verb, 'somersault' describes the action of performing the move.

Action Verb

When somersaulting, the direction can be specified as forward, backward, or in the air.

Direction Matters

Using 'somersault' as a verb can emphasize agility and liveliness in a subject.

Conveys Agility

 of the flip turn. Rather than stopping and turning around, athletes could somersault under the water and get going right away in the opposite direction. This second cliff, the introduction of gutters on the side of the pool that allows water to splash off, rather than becoming turbulence that impedes the swimmers as they race.

Are athletes really...

 years when he was little living in a brothel after he'd been abandoned there but when he was old enough to train as a trapeze artist he was taken back into the circus and he went on to become one of the best performance that the trapeze world has ever had he's the only person to complete the quadruple somersault on

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 Rather than scrambling away after mating, the tiny male does a somersault, bringing his abdomen into contact with his mate’s mouthparts. The female showers him with enzyme-rich gut juice and consumes his abdomen. Males not killed in the initial mating crawl back into the fray, often half-eaten,

Cannibalism in the...

 And psychologically, Jerry also somersaulted a lot. So if you can imagine having this sort of as being as your only space, he still does that behaviour now because again these coping mechanisms, these abnormal behaviours that they have are life long. Luckily they're reducing a lot.

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 who was doing Rambo you know somersaults down the ditch trying to stalk the moose it was funniest thing you've ever seen he was legal at that point to shoot but we hurried up and said hey don't shoot her animal the goal is to catch violators not just have random people

Elsie the Stuffed Moose...

 beautiful that is three rollers today if I manage to get you a broad bull roller well I'll do a backwards somersault on the spot how's that I will and we'll try helps right ah giraffe girl now when you talk about the top of the list that means of birds that I

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 novel machine architectures or to design clever algorithms that gracefully handle damage, just like human athletes do, instead of building machines with redundancy. We can't help but hold our breath when we watch a diver somersaulting into the water,

The astounding athletic...

 You know, my mind just still going round and round and doing somersaults. I remember thinking I'd come to Thailand, you know, start a new life, build the relationship back up with my dad. And here I was.

Surviving Prison in...

 nostril I can't help it you say they were in a honey badger and I'm doing backward somersaults in my seats even

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 but somersaulting into a pouch is never a simple procedure