cartwheelcart‧wheel /ˈkɑːt-wiːl $ ˈkɑːrt-/ noun [countable] 
a movement in which you turn completely over by throwing your body sideways onto your hands while bringing your legs over your headdo/turn cartwheels
The children were doing cartwheels in the park.2the wheel of a cart—cartwheel verb [intransitive]
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- He tried to brake with this ice-axe but started turning great cartwheels, bouncing all the way down.
- I expect her to do a cartwheel, and hope to see those pants again.
- I watched her expel each word from her mouth, the syllables hanging like cartwheels of breath crowding the dry hospital air.
- It was the summer of 1970, and the world was doing cartwheels.
- Little girls did cartwheels and then tried for interceptions.
- One of them had window-boxes and a cartwheel propped against the wall by the door.
- The waiter, Helen thought, was only waiting for the nod and he would turn cartwheels.
WORD SETS
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The children were doing cartwheels in the park.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
1 The children were doing cartwheels in the park.· He tried to brake with this ice-axe but started turning great cartwheels, bouncing all the way down.· The waiter, Helen thought, was only waiting for the nod and he would turn cartwheels.
a movement in which you turn completely over by throwing your body sideways onto your hands while bringing your legs over your headdo/turn cartwheels The children were doing cartwheels in the park.2the wheel of a cart—cartwheel verb [intransitive]