forward roll BrE
somersault AmE , also: summersault AmE

She hit the floor and tucked herself into a forward roll.

She released his leg and forward rolled away from him.

The forward roll is one of the most basic elements in gymnastics.

We tumbled around, I could make them laugh by standing on my head and doing forward rolls.

She half-expected to impact something, but instead went into a forward roll right through him.

I don't want to do a forward roll because that's what a stuntman does.

He made a forward roll, eyes and mouth tightly closed, curling his body into a ball.

The wrestler then performs a forward roll while maintaining the hold.

The cab started, and with its forward roll Alan felt an obliteration of the past.

Her stomach did a slow forward roll and her head began to pound.

He entered the room with a forward roll.

They started with forward rolls and progressed (should that be "regressed"?

It is considered an advanced forward roll, demonstrating flight and a smooth landing.

The backward roll is similar to the forward roll but in reverse.

As they came at him, he did a forward roll, going completely over in a split second and coming up with his spear held crossways.

I did a forward roll, feeling sand go down the back of my shirt, and fetched up against Kelly's legs.

A few of the students even tried leaping over a rolled-up mat and landing in a forward roll.

We started out with a simple forward roll and progressed into run-hop-roll combos.

He also used forward rolls and cartwheel kicks in an attempt to draw his opponents to the ground.

Taking a short forward roll, the autogiro started a steep climb, to wing its way above the trees.

Forward rolled the French in their last desperate onset; horse and foot mingled together.

Larry's empty stomach did a slow forward roll.

He took a forward roll in the soft dirt, coming to rest on his back, while Caesar landed just past his head.

Making her move, Hun dived into a forward roll, then reached for the blaster.

Bowling his body into a forward roll, he knocked Matthias down like a skittle.

Then he began playing a special game with her called somersaults.

Her heart did a somersault at the thought of seeing him again.

We went with a back somersault down the front steps.

She will be playing an important role in Somersault production's next show.

True, my sister and I usually do somersaults on that bed.

The world in an instant seemed to do a somersault around him.

It was as though her body's clock had turned somersaults.

He even did a little somersault coming out of the recess.

It must have fallen out when I took my somersault.

I jumped again, in a forward somersault, but came up to see it still following.

With a little practice, it was possible to add a somersault to the other features.

To them, it does not matter whether they hit all the notes or have perfect form on their somersaults.

My father had taught me to do a proper somersault.

He could, by this time, turn a somersault from the board, though his landing was less certain.

"I taught my son how to do somersaults on it."

Do I want it so bad - to have someone, anyone, doing somersaults in my gut?

Who wants to do somersaults and show your underwear to a million people, anyway?

It was the kind of mental somersault that can slow you down.

He was the first to perform a somersault from one running horse to another.

The buffalo did a somersault and landed on its back, dead.

Then Belle gave it a try and did a perfect somersault.

"Something about the somersault of their thought into the inconceivable."

She did a complete somersault before landing in the water bottom first.

Then went over the saddle, in a slow forward somersault.

At last she found the strength to execute a final somersault.