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Tumbling

noun

1.

The gymnastic moves of an acrobat. Synonym: acrobatics.

Tumble

verb

(past & past part. tumbled; pres. part. tumbling)

1.

Fall down, as if collapsing. Synonym: topple.

2.

Cause to topple or tumble by pushing. Synonyms: tip, topple.

3.

Roll over and over, back and forth.

4.

Fly around. Synonyms: whirl, whirl around. "Rising smoke whirled in the air"

5.

Fall apart. Synonyms: break down, collapse, crumble, crumple. "Negotiations broke down"

6.

Throw together in a confused mass.

7.

Understand, usually after some initial difficulty. Synonyms: catch on, cotton on, get it, get onto, get wise, latch on, twig.

8.

Fall suddenly and sharply.

9.

Put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying.

10.

Suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat.

11.

Do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully.

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"Tumbling" Quotes from Famous Books

... yet done all that must be done to make this prosperity stable. The people of the United States were checked in their efforts to prevent future piling up of huge agricultural surpluses and the tumbling prices which inevitably follow them. They were checked in their efforts to secure reasonable minimum wages and maximum hours and the end of child labor. And because they were checked, many groups in many parts of the country still have less purchasing power and a lower standard of living than ...

— The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt • Franklin Delano Roosevelt

... speakers, and would have been successful in escaping from the vicinity without his presence having been discovered, but for an accident. He struck his foot against a good-sized stone, which was lying right on the edge of a rather steep slope, and the rock, becoming dislodged, went tumbling and plunging downward through the underbrush, making what seemed to be a great noise, coming as it did in the midst of the night stillness. It sounded as loud as thunder ...

— The Dare Boys of 1776 • Stephen Angus Cox

... tried to walk out to her, but the weeds and rocks and dark clean beat me. I didn't get back till full day, and then I found all those silly niggers out on the beach praying their sea-god to return to them. I was that vexed and tired, messing and tumbling about, and coming up and going down again, I could have punched their silly heads all round when they started rejoicing. Hanged if I like so ...

— The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories • H. G. Wells

... no mistaking, from its icy breath, the nursery in which its infant form had been cradled. Just at our feet was one of the frail and picturesque-looking pine bridges spanning the torrent; while just below it another mountain river came tumbling down, and, joining with its dashing friend, they both rolled on in life together. As soon as our traps arrived, F. and I had a souse in the quietest pool we could find, and anything so cold I never felt; it was almost as if one was turned into stone, and stopping in it more than ...

— Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet • by William Henry Knight

... the queen and ladies of the court might witness the effect of those tremendous engines. The fair dames were filled with awe and admiration as the mountain shook beneath their feet with the thunder of the artillery and they beheld great fragments of the Moorish walls tumbling down the rocks ...

— Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada • Washington Irving

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