tumbling
[ tuhm-bling ]
noun
the act, practice, or art of performing acrobatic tumbles, usually on a mat or the ground.
Origin of tumbling
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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 BailyHe gave himself up to all the peltings, and little rude rompings, and rough and tumblings of those baby hands.
The Pansy Magazine, July 1886 | VariousCon would be the porpoise in a fish tank there, inscrutably busy on his errand and watched for his tumblings.
The Celt and Saxon, Complete | George MeredithI know there was catastrophe, the tumblings of avalanches, but the voice that cried-the soul of a lover, was it?
The World For Sale, Complete | Gilbert ParkerFits are the moral tumblings ov mans natur, the bak summersets ov hiz disposishun, the flying trapez ov the kritter himself.
The Complete Works of Josh Billings | Henry W. Shaw
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