Usually means: Acrobatic sideways handspring with rotation.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word cartwheel:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. cartwheel: Merriam-Webster
  2. cartwheel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cartwheel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cartwheel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cartwheel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cartwheel, cartwheel: Wordnik
  7. cartwheel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cartwheel: Wiktionary
  9. cartwheel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cartwheel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cartwheel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cartwheel: Dictionary.com
  13. cartwheel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Cartwheel (gymnastics), Cartwheel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. cartwheel: Rhymezone
  16. cartwheel: FreeDictionary.org
  17. cartwheel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. cartwheel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. cartwheel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cartwheel: Numismatic Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cartwheel: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cartwheel, cartwheel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Cartwheel: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Extreme Martial Arts Glosary (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Cartwheel: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cartwheel: Coin Collecting

(Note: See cartwheeler as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The wheel of a cart.
noun:  A gymnastic maneuver whereby the gymnast rotates to one side or the other while keeping arms and legs outstretched, spinning for one or more revolutions.
noun:  (UK, historical, obsolete slang) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
noun:  (US, historical, obsolete slang) A silver dollar of the larger size produced before 1979.
verb:  To perform the gymnastics feat of a cartwheel.
verb:  To flip end over end: normally said of a crashing vehicle or aircraft.

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