tumbler
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7.5
- noun
- /ˈtʌmblər/
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gimnasta
- The feather strokes of her Revlon Real Red lay spectrally on the lip of a tumbler well before the official cocktail hour.
Examples
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And from whence the first circus tumblers came?
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Faces twisted, their gestures threatening, they are falling over each other like tumblers.
Fiction book (2001) -
"I fear I'll never be as good a tumbler as the rest."
Fiction book (2000) -
Stop being a tumbler.
Blog text (30) -
Circus tumblers?
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They're the finest troupe of acrobats and tumblers in all of England.
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"The Kentuckyan at length gave out, on which the people carried off the victor, and he, preferring a triumph to a doctor who came to cicatrize his face, suffered himself to be chaired around the ground as the champion of the times and the first rough-and-tumbler.
Blog text (6) -
This day, while Vervain waited for him in the orchid nursery, Pending found the miners engrossed in a game of cat's eye, a drinking game played with somersault tumblers.
Fiction book (1993) -
SEAL ACTS, DOG ACTS, TUMBLERS, JUGGLERS, TAP DANCERS, BUT YOU ARE, WITHOUT A DOUBT, THE MOST UNTALENTED MAN I'VE EVER SEEN.
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The young tumbler amazed the audience with her graceful somersaults and twists during the gymnastics competition.
Synonyms
59
2.5
A person who trains to do jumps, flips, and balance routines
Compounds
- Specialized
1
7.3
A set of small metal pins inside a lock that a key lines up to open it
- Specialized
A flat metal piece inside a lever lock that a key lifts to open the lock
How Acrobatic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tumbler comes from the verb tumble, which means 'to roll' or 'to fall'. That fits a gymnast who does rolls, somersaults and flips, so a tumbler is literally 'a person who tumbles'.