back-somersault

He flipped into bed with a solemn back-somersault and a ludicrous kick of his heels as he tucked his legs under the blankets.

Main Street 2004

Then Alaire let his legs collapse, and dropped into a back-somersault, catching the guard in the gut with his feet and flipping him over backwards, trying to roll his adversary into the bars and not into the open cell door.

Prison Of Souls Lackey, Mercedes 1993

I turned a cartwheel across the room, and a back-somersault after.

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

I finished with my slow back-somersault off the hands.

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

There was a dance I'd practiced, a favorite of the King's at bedtime, which ends with a slow back-somersault off the hands.

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

It was not one of Sean's best punches, he was out of training, but it was good enough to send jock in a spectacular back-somersault over the counter.

When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

Even till my feet touched Attic soil, the greater part of me had been Theseus the Athenian, team-leader of the Cranes; the odds-on fancy, the back-somersault boy, the first of the bull-leapers.

The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962

I brought off a new trick, jumping off Herakles with a standing back-somersault, and landing on my feet.

The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

When she had heard, she threw a back-somersault, for she was a wild thing still.

The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door --

Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes