跟頭

跟头
gēntou
  1. tumble
  2. somersault

CEDICT

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

Wiktionary

  1. 身體倒翻，頭朝地的姿勢。如：「翻跟頭」。《儒林外史．第三回》：「一聲吩咐過了，兩傍走過幾個如狼似虎的公人，把那童生叉著膊子，一路跟頭，叉到大門外。」亦作「根頭」。
  2. 比喻遭遇挫折或出醜。

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 頭 tou suffix for nouns

Containing this entry

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