Somersault vs. Somerset

Somersaultnoun

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

Somersetnoun

a county in southwestern England on the Bristol Channel

Somersaultverb

To perform a somersault.

‘The performer somersaulted all the way across the stage.’;

Somerset

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.

Somersaultnoun

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

‘Now I'll onlyMake him break his neck in doing a sommerset.’;

Somersaultnoun

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

Somersaultverb

do a somersault

Somersault

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.