How to Use handspring in a Sentence

handspring

noun

• He did a handspring on the lawn.
• There are more mountains to climb, and back handsprings to land.
  — Story By Rick Press and Jessica Koscielniak video By Jessica Koscielniak, star-telegram, 27 Apr. 2017
• The move involves a back handspring with two-and-a-half twists in the air before landing.
  — Joshua Berlinger, Aditi Sangal and Adam Renton, CNN, 28 July 2021
• After the run, the round-off, and the back handspring, Biles translates her forward motion into a leap into the air.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 13 Aug. 2019
• Done wrong, a double back handspring into a layout results in shame at the least, injury at the worst.
  — Danyel Smith, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• Her second vault was an Amanar, which is a back handspring onto the vault into a back layout with two and a half twists.
  — New York Times, 26 July 2021
• By age 4, when most preschoolers are able to perform a wobbly cartwheel at best, Ohashi had mastered a back handspring.
  — Marie Claire, 19 Apr. 2019
• Elizabeth has been working with Brittany for two years on her back handspring.
  — Story By Rick Press and Jessica Koscielniak video By Jessica Koscielniak, star-telegram.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• Nearby, gymnasts in sparkly leotards fly through the air, landing flips and handsprings.
  — Meadow Rue Merrill, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Sometimes that promise fulfills itself against all odds, in a kind of tragedy-averting handspring.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 9 Apr. 2021
• Biles stunned fellow gymnasts with the impressive vault trick that involves a round-off onto the springboard, a back handspring onto the vault, and a double pike flip.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 22 May 2021
• After doing a handspring over a bed in the White House, the 49-year-old president headed to the Baltimore and Potomac railroad station.
  — Joy Lanzendorfer, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
• And senior Jesse Philphott executed a back handspring-into-clean-flip that sent the school into an uproar.
  — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2022
• The vault – during which Biles does a roundoff onto the takeoff board, a back handspring onto the vault and flips twice with her body in a piked position – is so difficult that most men don’t try it.
  — Rachel Axon, USA TODAY, 25 July 2021
• As his teammates descended on him in a roar of cheers, Nani shrugged off their hugs for his signature celebration — a round-off back handspring.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 6 Aug. 2020
• In one Instagram video, Collins strings together seven back handsprings followed by a back tuck.
  — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com, 2 Aug. 2017
• The vault requires her to do a roundoff onto the takeoff board and a back handspring onto the table before doing a double somersault with her body in a piked position.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2021
• Video of the off-duty agent showed him unleashing a torrent of dance moves at a Denver bar early Saturday before launching into a back handspring.
  — Holly Yan and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN, 3 June 2018
• The 41-year-old vault specialist Oksana Chusovitina, for example, performed a front handspring onto the vaulting horse and two front somersaults off — the most difficult vault in the world.
  — Victor Mather The New York Times, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2016
• Robinson then celebrated with a somersault and a back handspring.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2022
• Except, unlike a handspring, the touchdown raiz enables an athlete to gather rotational momentum about the axis that runs between their head and their feet.
  — Wired, 25 Oct. 2019
• Biles first landed the vault – which requires a roundoff onto the takeoff board, a back handspring onto the table and a double somersault with her body in a piked position – at U.S. Classic in May and did two in podium training here.
  — Rachel Axon, USA TODAY, 28 July 2021
• Biles sprinted down the runway, did a roundoff onto the springboard followed by a back handspring onto the vault, finishing with two backflips with her legs ramrod straight and her hands seemingly magnetized to her hamstrings.
  — Arkansas Online, 23 May 2021
• Biles made history at the U.S. Classic in Indianapolis simply by trying the maneuver, which involves a roundoff onto the springboard, a handspring onto the vault and a double backflip in a pike position before the landing.
  — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2021
• And precedent for the federation’s decision exists: in 2016, officials downgraded the value of the notorious Produnova vault, a handspring with a double front tuck.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2019
• A backflip — sometimes replaced with a back handspring — became his signature move after every competition.
  — Nathan Fenno, latimes.com, 3 June 2017

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