tumbling

[ tuhm-bling ]
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noun
  1. the act, practice, or art of performing acrobatic tumbles, usually on a mat or the ground.

Origin of tumbling

1
First recorded in 1375–1425, tumbling is from the late Middle English word tomblyng.See tumble, -ing1

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How to use tumbling in a sentence

  • It followed down the wild tumblings of the little stream, fed from lofty springs.

    Heart of the Blue Ridge | Waldron Baily
  • He gave himself up to all the peltings, and little rude rompings, and rough and tumblings of those baby hands.

  • Con would be the porpoise in a fish tank there, inscrutably busy on his errand and watched for his tumblings.

  • I know there was catastrophe, the tumblings of avalanches, but the voice that cried-the soul of a lover, was it?

  • Fits are the moral tumblings ov mans natur, the bak summersets ov hiz disposishun, the flying trapez ov the kritter himself.