cartwheel

English

Etymology

From cart +‎ wheel.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːtˌwiːl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹtˌwil/

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

cartwheel (plural cartwheels)

1. The wheel of a cart.
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. (UK, historical, obsolete slang) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
   • 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words:

     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.

4. (US, historical, obsolete slang) A silver dollar of the larger size produced before 1979.

Derived terms

• cartwheeler
• cartwheel hat
• splitwheel

Translations

wheel of a cart

Danish: vognhjul n Dutch: wagenwiel (nl) n Estonian: vankriratas Finnish: kärrynpyörä (fi) Galician: roda (gl) f, roda de carro m German: Wagenrad (de) n Norwegian: Bokmål: kjerrehjul n Nynorsk: kjerrehjul n Russian: колесо́ (ru) n (kolesó) Spanish: rueda del carro f Swedish: vagnshjul (sv) n Walloon: rowe di tcherete f

gymnastic maneuver

Bulgarian: циганско колело n (cigansko kolelo) Catalan: roda (ca) f Czech: hvězda (cs) f Danish: vejrmølle c Dutch: radslag (nl) m Estonian: hundiratas Finnish: kärrynpyörä (fi) French: roue (fr) f German: Rad (de) n Hungarian: cigánykerék (hu) Icelandic: handahlaup n pl Macedonian: ѕвезда (mk) f (dzvezda) Polish: gwiazda (pl) f Portuguese: estrelinha (pt) (Brazil), estrela (pt) (Brazil), aú (Brazil), roda (pt) (Portugal) Russian: колесо́ (ru) n (kolesó) Spanish: voltereta lateral f Swedish: hjulning (sv) c

silver dollar

Russian: колесо́ (ru) n (kolesó)

Verb

cartwheel (third-person singular simple present cartwheels, present participle cartwheeling, simple past and past participle 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.

Translations

perform the gymnastics feat of a cartwheel

German: Rad schlagen (de) Portuguese: fazer a roda Swedish: hjula (sv)