• Tumbling

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    tumbling
    1. Present participle of tumble

    Full definition of tumbling

    Noun

    tumbling

    (plural tumblings)
    1. The act of something that tumbles.
      • James HowellThese so many conquests must needs bring with them many tumblings and tossings, many disturbances and changes in government...
      • 1838, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (page 176)Having feasted our souls with this sublime spectacle, we ministered to the wants of the body by a plentiful breakfast, and about noon we commenced the descent, rendered ludicrous enough by various tumblings and sprawlings on the part of the more inexpert mountaineers.
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