跟头

跟頭
gēntou
  1. tumble
  2. somersault

CEDICT

  1. fall (Classifier: 個／个)
  2. somersault (Classifier: 個／个)

Wiktionary

  1. 身体倒翻，头朝地的姿势。如：「翻跟头」。《儒林外史．第三回》：「一声吩咐过了，两傍走过几个如狼似虎的公人，把那童生叉着膊子，一路跟头，叉到大门外。」亦作「根头」。
  2. 比喻遭遇挫折或出丑。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 跟 gēn
  1. heel
  2. to follow closely
  3. to go with
  4. (of a woman) to marry sb
  5. with
  6. compared with
  7. to
  8. towards
  9. and (joining two nouns)
2 头 tou suffix for nouns

Containing this entry

打跟头 dǎgēntou
  1. to turn a somersault
  2. to turn head over heels
折跟头 zhēgēntou
  1. to do a somersault
  2. to turn head over heels
摔跟头 shuāigēntou
  1. to fall
  2. fig. to suffer a setback
栽跟头 zāigēntou
  1. to fall head over heels
  2. (fig.) to come a cropper
翻跟头 fāngēntou to turn a somersault
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Related entries

筋斗 jīndǒu
  1. tumble
  2. somersault
如果你在洋娃娃腹部的側面上鏈的話，它就會扭動手臂，翻著筋斗向前前進。

If you wind up the doll with the key on the side of its torso it will swing its arms round and go forward doing somersaults.

Source: Tatoeba

跟斗 gēndou
  1. somersault
  2. fall; tumble
  3. (fig.) setback; failure
空翻 kōngfān
  1. flip
  2. somersault