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Somersault vs Tumbling - What's the difference?

somersault | tumbling |

As nouns the difference between somersault and tumbling

is that somersault is (chiefly|gymnastics) starting on one's feet, an instance of rotating one's body 360 while airborne, with one's feet going over one's head while tumbling is the act of something that tumbles.

As verbs the difference between somersault and tumbling

is that somersault is to perform a somersault while tumbling is .

somersault

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chiefly, gymnastics) Starting on one's feet, an instance of rotating one's body 360 while airborne, with one's feet going over one's head.

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To perform a somersault.
    • The performer somersaulted all the way across the stage.

    See also

    * (l)

    tumbling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that tumbles.
  • * (James Howell)
    • These so many conquests must needs bring with them many tumblings and tossings, many disturbances and changes in government
  • * 1838 , Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (page 176)
    • Having feasted our souls with this sublime spectacle, we ministered to the wants of the body by a plentiful breakfast, and about noon we commenced the descent, rendered ludicrous enough by various tumblings and sprawlings on the part of the more inexpert mountaineers.