cartwheel

English

Cart with cartwheels attached

Cartwheel silver dollars

Etymology

From cart + wheel.

Noun

cartwheel (plural cartwheels)

1. The literal wheel of a cart.
2. A gymnastic maneuver whereby the gymnast rotates to one side or the other while keeping arms and legs outstretched, spinning for one or more revolutions.
3. (US) A silver dollar of the larger size produced before 1979.

Translations

The literal wheel of a cart

Danish: vognhjul (da) n. Finnish: kärrynpyörä

Spanish: rueda de carro f. Swedish: vagnshjul (sv) n.

A gymnastic maneuver

Bulgarian: циганско колело (bg) n. Danish: vejrmølle (da) c. Finnish: kärrynpyörä

French: roue (fr) f. Hungarian: cigánykerék  (hu) Spanish: voltereta lateral f. Swedish: hjulning (sv) c.

A silver dollar

Verb

cartwheel (third-person singular simple present cartwheels, present participle cartwheeling, simple past and past participle cartwheeled)

1. To perform the gymnastics feat of a cartwheel.
2. To flip end over end.

   The race car hit a bump and cartwheeled over the finish line.

Cartwheel: Aú Aberto (Open Aú)

Cartwheel: Aú Fechado (Closed Aú)