Paul Walker

Surfing big waves is not an extreme sport to me. I fall off, tumble down, and come up. My heart's racing because I'm thinking I almost drowned, and I thank God I can breathe again, but I always think, 'What am I hitting?' Water.

American Actor

Jackie Robinson

The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.

American Baseball Player

Oprah Winfrey

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

American Entertainer

Adam West

In a very real sense, I represent pop culture in an iconic way. It's been very good to me, so anything I can do to help the fans to tumble along - it's good.

Samuel Butler

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

British Poet

Molly Bloom

I was in the company of movie stars, important directors, and powerful business tycoons. I felt like Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole.

American Author

Tobias Harris

You understand in this league that if you don't win, everybody's stock tumbles.

Keir Starmer

I'm absolutely fine with the rough and tumble of politics.

British Politician

Aly Raisman

American Athlete

Chris Harris

British Journalist

Tumble implies a quick, uncontrollable fall, often leading to confusion or surprise.

Sudden Drop

Tumble usually suggests the fall was not planned or expected.

Accidental Movement

When someone tumbles, they may roll or flip in addition to falling.

Motion Hint

In finance, tumble indicates a rapid and often unexpected drop in value.

Fast Decline

When used financially, tumble usually carries a negative meaning, suggesting problems.

Negative Connotation

Tumble can describe awkward, unintentional movements, not just falling.

Awkward Motion

In a humorous context, a character may tumble to create a comedic effect.

Physical Comedy

Tumble can refer to the sudden, often accidental, understanding of a situation.

Sudden Realization

The realization implied by tumble is informal and often comes after confusion.

Casual Discovery

A tumble is usually uncontrolled and unintended, conveying an element of surprise.

Involuntary Action

A tumble may not be serious but can imply a jarring or disorienting experience.

Severity Implication

In sports, tumbling involves controlled, skilled movements and is deliberate.

Skillful Movement

The term 'tumble' is specifically associated with gymnastics and similar sports.

Gymnastics Term

 Without thinking, I fired off a bunch of tweets, challenging them and saying were they really serious about this. And in doing so, I managed to kick a very small rock off a very big hill that turned into an avalanche that I found myself tumbling in the middle of. Because you see, a few hours later, Elon tweeted me back and said

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 If we made that a point, we'd understand that, for the times when we need help, we wouldn't have to look around so hard if we made sure we were somebody else's help. And there are times when I feel like I have taken very public tumbles and falls, like the time when I was asked to speak at a conference,

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 forever you can make a phone book fly yes this is a tumbling wing it's just one long strip of paper with a few creases in it the tumbling wing works best with thin sheets of paper like you'd find in a phone book so go in a time machine and go find a phone book to fly the tumbling wing you get a flat

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 And once again, people displaced from tasks in the old bit of pie could tumble into tasks in the new bit of pie instead. Economists call these effects complementarities, but really that's just a fancy word to capture the different way that technological progress helps human beings.

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 on the returning shrubs. Bison numbers rose as they browsed the revitalized forests. The wolves changed almost everything. This is an example of a trophic cascade, a change at the top of the food chain that tumbles all the way to the bottom, affecting every level.

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 dogs pack life requires fighting for your share in the rough and tumble of competing mouths this puppy breaks all of the cat's social conventions his wild instincts express themselves despite his unusual family

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 It's because we are all made of the same building unit, is that I can see a future where the barriers between people all come tumbling down. So no matter how ugly the world around us gets,

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 That's a geranium pollen. And its shape is what gives it the function of being able to tumble through air so easily. Look at that shape. Life adds information to matter.

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 and white body went tumbling over the embankment I am fed to her third in the family law that polecat don't paid off he went spinning into infinity he went

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 My point is don't control them, don't protect them too much, and they need to tumble sometimes. They need to get some injury.