noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
turn
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He tried to brake with this ice-axe but started turning great cartwheels , bouncing all the way down.
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The waiter, Helen thought, was only waiting for the nod and he would turn cartwheels .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He tried to brake with this ice-axe but started turning great cartwheels, bouncing all the way down.
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I expect her to do a cartwheel , and hope to see those pants again.
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I watched her expel each word from her mouth, the syllables hanging like cartwheels of breath crowding the dry hospital air.
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It was the summer of 1970, and the world was doing cartwheels.
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Little girls did cartwheels and then tried for interceptions.
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One of them had window-boxes and a cartwheel propped against the wall by the door.
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The waiter, Helen thought, was only waiting for the nod and he would turn cartwheels.