What is another word for tumbles?

Pronunciation: [tˈʌmbə͡lz] (IPA)

The word "tumbles" refers to the act of falling or rolling over repeatedly, usually in an uncontrolled manner. Synonyms for this word include "tumbles down," "falls," "tosses," "tumbles over," "topples," "plummets," "crashes," "stumbles," "rolls," and "staggering." Other possible synonyms include "careens," "slides," "slips," "collapses," "catapults," "dives," "plunges," "drops," "tumbles forward," and "spirals." In general, all of these terms describe some form of uncontrolled and rapid movement, which can be either intentional or unintentional, depending on the context. So, whether it's a gymnast performing aerial flips or an object falling down the stairs, these synonyms capture the essence of tumbling in their own unique ways.

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Usage examples for Tumbles

Faster and faster he goes, racing in small circles, till some foolish fowl grows dizzy with twisting her head, or loses her balance and tumbles down, only to be snapped up and carried off across his shoulders in a twinkling.
"Ways of Wood Folk"
William J. Long
So I runs up a parsage, and in the middle of the parsage I tumbles over the guv'nor lyin' acrost the parsage.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
On her red claws despondent swimming, The plump goose parts the water cold, Then on the ice with caution stalking She slips and tumbles,-ah behold!
"Russian Lyrics"
Translated by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi

Famous quotes with Tumbles

  • Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other.
    Luther
  • I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road.
    Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
  • Consciousness, thoughts, are traveling through space in your head; we are traveling through space on this beautiful biosphere, Earth. If consciousness can traverse inner space, then perhaps it can traverse outer space. Perhaps we are as connected by consciousness as we are by the air that we all breathe. The air we inhale through the holes in our faces which tumbles into our lungs and blood, which travels through our hearts, which forms the words we speak, the air which we exhale, which is connected to all air, an unbroken entity, like all the water in all the rivers in the world, leading to the sea, touching one another.
    Russell Brand
  • Passing round Point Conception, and steering easterly, we opened the islands that form, with the mainland, the canal of Santa Barbara. There they are, Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa, and there is the beautiful point, Santa Buenaventura; and there lies Santa Barbara on its plain, with its amphitheater of high hills and distant mountains. There is the old white mission with its belfries, and there the town, with its one-story adobe houses, with here and there a two-story wooden house of later build; yet little is it altered — the same repose in the golden sunlight and glorious climate, sheltered by its hills; and then, more remindful than anything else, there roars and tumbles upon the beach the same grand surf of the great Pacific... the same bright-blue ocean, and the surf making just the same monotonous, melancholy roar, and the same dreamy town.
    Richard Henry Dana
  • The head tumbles between the legs like a wooden ball you fall, dark night in the eyes, the door a span away inaccessible you are on your knees ...
    Caterina Davinio

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