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cartwheel

 noun
     
cartwheel
Related topics: Other Sports
cart‧wheel [countable]
1DSO a movement in which you turn completely over by throwing your body sideways onto your hands while bringing your legs over your head
do/turn cartwheels
The children were doing cartwheels in the park.
2 the wheel of a cart
—cartwheel verb [intransitive]
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