tumbling has definitions from the field of sport
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[ adjective ] moving in surges and billows and rolls

Synonyms

rolling billowing

Examples

"billowing smoke from burning houses" "the rolling fog" "the rolling sea" "the tumbling water of the rapids"

Related terms

moving

2
[ adjective ] pitching headlong with a rolling or twisting movement

Examples

"a violent tumbling fall"

Related terms

falling

3
[ noun ] (sport) the gymnastic moves of an acrobat

Synonyms

acrobatics

Used in print

(Bonnie Prudden, "The Dancer and the Gymnast"...)

It is made_up of tumbling , which might be said to start with a somersault , run_through such stunts as headstands , handstands , cartwheels , backbends , and culminate in nearly impossible combinations of aerial flips and twists and apparatus work .

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