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Handspring

noun
1.
An acrobatic feat in which a person goes from a standing position to a handstand and back again.





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"Handspring" Quotes from Famous Books



... so long that the sweets were being handed when she caught a phrase on her other side, where Miss Corby, the comic woman of the company, was bantering Jack Stepney on his approaching engagement. Miss Corby's role was jocularity: she always entered the conversation with a handspring. ...
— House of Mirth • Edith Wharton
... best to be dignified and not turn a handspring or shout for joy. He was like a boy trying to look sad when he learns that the school-teacher is ill. He managed to hold back and tell Tawm Kinch that this was kind of sudden like and he'd have to talk to the wife ...
— In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes


Words linked to "Handspring" :   acrobatic feat, acrobatic stunt


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