Dictionary definition for: Tumbling
1. (n) the gymnastic moves of an acrobat
2. (s) moving in surges and billows and rolls; "billowing smoke from burning houses" "the rolling fog" "the rolling sea" "the tumbling water of the rapids"
3. (s) pitching headlong with a rolling or twisting movement; "a violent tumbling fall"
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