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
  • In some ways, all this has helped Miller do a back handspring to the future.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Her body whips back in a lightning-fast handspring that leaves even the best athletes in the world in the dust.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 24 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Sometimes that promise fulfills itself against all odds, in a kind of tragedy-averting handspring.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Nearby, gymnasts in sparkly leotards fly through the air, landing flips and handsprings.
    — Meadow Rue Merrill, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Robinson then celebrated with a somersault and a back handspring.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2022
  • In one Instagram video, Collins strings together seven back handsprings followed by a back tuck.
    — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com, 2 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • This has allowed many more gymnasts to perform the Yurchenko entry to the vault, which is a roundoff onto the springboard, back handspring onto the table, with flips, twists or both afterward.
    — Robin Huebner, Twin Cities, 28 June 2024
  • Harris turned a potential weakness into a strength by flawlessly performing a Yurchenko 1½, a vault that has a back handspring entry and involves 1½ twists.
    — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • The move, formerly known as the Yurchenko double pike, is extremely difficult and requires a round-off entry onto the springboard, a back handspring onto the vaulting table and two flips with straight legs.
    — Sarah Maddox, CBS News, 27 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Yurchenko entry — a roundoff onto the springboard and a back handspring onto the vault table — is named after former Russian gymnast Natalia Yurchenko, who debuted her eponymous skill in 1982.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 24 July 2024

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