cartwheel

English

Cart with cartwheels attached

Cartwheel silver dollars

Etymology

cart +‎ wheel

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːtˌwiːl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹtˌwil/

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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. (UK, historical, obsolete slang) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
   • 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words:

     Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.

4. (US, historical, obsolete slang) A silver dollar of the larger size produced before 1979.

Derived terms

• cartwheel hat

Translations

wheel of a cart

• Danish: vognhjul n
• Dutch: wagenwiel (nl) n
• Estonian: vankriratas
• Finnish: kärrynpyörä (fi)
• Galician: roda (gl) f, roda de carro m
• German: Wagenrad (de) n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjerrehjul n

  Nynorsk: kjerrehjul n

• Russian: колесо́ (ru) n (kolesó)
• Spanish: rueda del carro f
• Swedish: vagnshjul (sv) n
• Walloon: rowe di tcherete f

gymnastic maneuver

• Bulgarian: циганско колело n (cigansko kolelo)
• Catalan: roda (ca) f
• Czech: hvězda (cs) f
• Danish: vejrmølle c
• Dutch: radslag (nl) m
• Estonian: hundiratas
• Finnish: kärrynpyörä (fi)
• French: roue (fr) f
• German: Rad (de) n
• Hungarian: cigánykerék (hu)
• Icelandic: handahlaup n pl
• Macedonian: ѕвезда (mk) f (dzvezda)
• Polish: gwiazda (pl) f
• Portuguese: estrelinha (pt), estrela (pt), aú
• Russian: колесо́ (ru) n (kolesó)
• Spanish: voltereta lateral f
• Swedish: hjulning (sv) c

silver dollar

• Russian: колесо́ (ru) n (kolesó)

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: normally said of a crashing vehicle or aircraft.

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

Cartwheel: Aú Aberto (Open Aú)

Cartwheel: Aú Fechado (Closed Aú)

Translations

perform the gymnastics feat of a cartwheel

• German: Rad schlagen (de)
• Swedish: hjula (sv)