cartwheel

plural cartwheels

1. The wheel of a cart.

   Near-synonyms: wagon wheel, artillery wheel

   Synonyms: wagon wheel, artillery wheel

2. 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.
3. UKhistoricalobsoleteslangA crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.

   Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.

   1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words

4. UShistoricalobsoleteslangA silver dollar of the larger size produced before 1979.

present singular third person cartwheels · participle present cartwheeling · participle past cartwheeled · past cartwheeled

1. To perform the gymnastics feat of a cartwheel.
2. To flip end over end: normally said of a crashing vehicle or aircraft.

   The race car hit a bump and cartwheeled over the finish line.