Definition of "summersault" []

• Variant of somersault. (noun)

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• "As Michigan faces off against Iowa this weekend in its annual homecoming game, Dick Kimball plans to have two friends pitch him into a backwards summersault on the sidelines."
• "Does this mean you need to summersault through life with a permanent smile?"
• "But she surprises me with her verve, dodging the car at the last second with a little roll that reverses into like a forward summersault, coming down way hard on my unmentionables."