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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartwheel/#m1)

2) A cartwheel is the wheel of a cart. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartwheel/#m3)

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

### In the corpora

- [Cartwheels and handstands at home are practised on grass or a mat, away from furniture.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing/6/)
- [In two weeks he does the whole cartwheel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cartwheel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cartwheel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.