Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense, plural cartwheels, present participle cartwheeling, past tense, past participle cartwheeled
1. countable noun
If you do a cartwheel, you do a fast, circular movement with your body. You fall sideways, put your hands on the ground, swing your legs over, and return to a standing position.
Their four children turn cartwheels in the grass as we talk.
2. verb
If a person or something such as a vehicle cartwheels down or across something in an uncontrollable way, they turn over and over.
Suddenly I was cartwheeling down the slope, all orientation gone. [VERB preposition/adverb]
The two cars cartwheeled horrifyingly into the sand trap at the first corner. [VERB preposition/adverb]
[Also VERB]
cartwheel in British English
(ˈkɑːtˌwiːl)
noun
1.
the wheel of a cart, usually having wooden spokes and metal tyres
2.
an acrobatic movement in which the body makes a sideways revolution supported on the hands with arms and legs outstretched
3. US slang
a large coin, esp the silver dollar
cartwheel in American English
(ˈkɑrtˌhwil; ˈkɑrtˌwil)
noun
1.
a kind of handspring performed sideways, with the arms and legs extended: often an optional exercise in gymnastic competition
2. US, Slang
a large coin, esp. a silver dollar
verb intransitive
3.
to perform cartwheels
Examples of 'cartwheel' in a sentence
cartwheel
As Izzy looked on, impotent in disbelief, his body performed a slow cartwheel around the railing.
Dobbs, Michael THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS (2002)
There was another of a cartwheel shaped galaxy --- the result of two galaxies crashing --- spinning through the blackness of space.
Isabel Wolff RESCUING ROSE (2002)
"Do a cartwheel, Tania," said Dimitri with his hand on her back.