Somersault vs. Somerset — What's the Difference?

A somersault (also flip, heli, and in gymnastics salto) is an acrobatic exercise in which a person's body rotates 360° around a horizontal axis with the feet passing over the head. A somersault can be performed forwards, backwards or sideways and can be executed in the air or on the ground.

Somerset ( (listen); archaically Somersetshire) is a county in South West England which borders Gloucestershire and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east and Devon to the south-west. It is bounded to the north and west by the Severn Estuary and the Bristol Channel, its coastline facing southeastern Wales.

An acrobatic stunt in which the body rolls forward or backward in a complete revolution with the knees bent and the feet coming over the head. Also called somerset; also called regionally tumbleset.

See somersault.

A complete reversal, as of sympathies or opinions.

To perform a somersault.

To execute a somersault.

Archaic form of somersault

Starting on one's feet, an instance of rotating one's body 360 degree while airborne or on the ground, with one's feet passing over one's head.

Archaic form of somersault

To perform a somersault.

A county in southwestern England on the Bristol Channel

A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end.

An acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return

Do a somersault