cartwheel

1. 1.

   a wheel that has wooden spokes and a metal rim

   Broaderwheel

   Part ofcart

   Partsspokewagon tire
2. 2.

   acrobatic revolutions with the body turned sideways and the arms and legs outstretched like the spokes of a wheel

   Broaderacrobatic stunt
3. 3.

   a dollar made of silver

   Synonymssilver dollar

   Broaderdollar

1. 1.

   do cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement using both hands and feet

   Broaderwheel

Other forms of cartwheel

plural

cartwheels·

past tense

cartwheeled·

present participle

cartwheeling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cartwheel

What does cartwheel mean?

cartwheel means "a wheel that has wooden spokes and a metal rim". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cartwheel?

cartwheel has 2 syllables: cart-wheel. The stress falls on "cart". In IPA it is /ˈkɑɹˌtwil/.

What is another word for cartwheel?

Close synonyms include silver dollar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cartwheel a common word?

cartwheel is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.