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# cartwheel

noun (a cartwheel, cartwheels); verb (cartwheel, cartwheels, cartwheeled, cartwheeling)

«cartwheel» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A cartwheel is a gymnastics move where you put your hands on the ground one after the other and swing your legs over your head in a circle, sideways, landing on your feet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartwheel/#m1)
2. A cartwheel is the wheel of a cart. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartwheel/#m2)
3. To cartwheel is to do cartwheels, or to roll over and over sideways. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartwheel/#m3)

### In the lessons

In PE and gymnastics pupils learn to do cartwheels safely on a mat, with straight arms and legs. In everyday life children do cartwheels on the grass. In history carts had big wooden cartwheels with spokes. In maths, the body's movement in a cartwheel is like a wheel turning.

### Examples

- She did three cartwheels across the lawn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartwheel/#x1)
- Can you do a cartwheel? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartwheel/#x2)
- Practise cartwheels on a soft mat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartwheel/#x3)
- He cartwheeled across the gym. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartwheel/#x4)
- The old cart had a broken cartwheel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartwheel/#x5)
- The car spun and cartwheeled off the road. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartwheel/#x6)

### Note

One word: cartwheel. Regular verb: cartwheeled. Safety: warm up first, do them on grass or mats, away from walls and other people.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «cartwheel» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartwheel/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cartwheel» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cartwheel.html) on Mova free.