cartwheel

«cartwheel» in Mova's school dictionary: a gymnastics move where you put your hands on the ground… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

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 →

2) A cartwheel is the wheel of a cart. tree →

3) To cartwheel is to do cartwheels, or to roll over and over sideways. tree →

sense 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 →
• Can you do a cartwheel? tree →
• Practise cartwheels on a soft mat. tree →
• He cartwheeled across the gym. tree →
• The old cart had a broken cartwheel. tree →
• The car spun and cartwheeled off the road. tree →

note

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

In the corpora

• Cartwheels and handstands at home are practised on grass or a mat, away from furniture.
• In two weeks he does the whole cartwheel.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cartwheel» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.