🤸 To fall over 🤸 A fall or flip 🤸 To do flips 📉 To collapse 💡 To realize 🧺 To dry clothes 🔀 To mix up

to tumble

14 3.0

To roll and flip your body in gymnastics

verb
/ˈtʌmbl/

: hacer volteretas

I think I'll do the acrobatics to try and do a little tumble to do a dodge.

Examples

Watch the children tumble down the hill on their way to the playground.
What I had was a new approach to tumbling from a horse.

Fiction book (1990)
I almost excelled in tumbling at school.

Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)
Watch me tumble!

Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
The Tumbling Piccolos... an acrobatic act with some circus.

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
The gymnasts tumbled gracefully across the mat during their routine.
During the gymnastics class, students learn how to tumble and perform flips.

Synonyms

to do cartwheel

vsto tumble

1 3.5

To turn your body sideways in a full circle touching the ground with hands and feet to show joy

focuses on acrobatic sequences and skill rather than an emotional display

to cartwheel

vsto tumble

1 3.0

To turn the body sideways using the hands and feet to touch the ground like a wheel

involves multiple rolling and turning moves rather than one sideways somersault

Idioms

to take a tumble

7 5.4

To fall suddenly, for example by tripping or by losing value

Phrasal Verbs

to tumble dry

1 3.2

To use a machine that turns clothes with hot air to remove water

to tumble on

1 7.4

Keep going despite problems and confusion

Compounds

rough-and-tumble

Informal

3 7.3

Energetic and rough, not following usual rules

tumble drier

1 2.6

A machine that dries wet clothes by spinning them in warm air

rough-and-tumble

7.8

A noisy, rough fight with little care for rules

tumble grass

9.4

A wild grass with thin brush-like seed heads that grows in fields

tumble-dryer

2.6

A machine that spins wet clothes with hot air to remove water

How Skillful

flip

21 3.7

to somersault

5 2.9

to tumble

14 3.0

cartwheel

15 3.7

to roll

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

tumble infinitive

tumbled past

tumbled past participle

tumbling present participle

tumbles third person singular

Etymology

Tumble comes from an old French word tomber meaning 'to fall' or 'turn over', and you can think of a performer called a tumbler who does controlled falls and rolls. That is why to tumble also means to do acrobatic flips and rolls in gymnastics.