handspring
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Definitions
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- : an acrobatic feat in which one starts from a standing position and wheels the body forward or backward in a complete circle, landing first on the hands and then on the feet, without contact by the rest of the body.
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hand·sprang, hand·sprung, hand·springing.
- : to perform a handspring.
Examples
Her eponymous front handspring double twist was the single best vault in the final.
Soviet legend Natalia Yurchenko, who innovated the roundoff-back handspring entry vault, was injured in the vault final and had to withdraw from the remaining three finals.
It requires explosive power pushing off the vault—backward, no less, after a roundoff and back handspring—to flip twice, with the legs in a pike position, before -landing.
Some Yurchenko-style vaults require a gymnast to twist during the back handspring as she reaches for the vault, but the majority of the variation comes during the flip.
Other vaults require a gymnast to perform a front handspring onto the table.
The next moment he executed a handspring into the midst of the natives, almost upsetting one of them.
The tub went down, and Charlie turned a handspring in the hot suds and came up covered with foam and wet clothes.
Well have no end of good times, said Bob, trying to turn a handspring on the grass, but tumbling down in the effort.
Monsieur Call bowed to everyone, including little Artaban, who acknowledged his courtesy by executing a handspring.
Had he not been on his skates he would have attempted a handspring in the exuberance of his spirits.