<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (February 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (February 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> A somersault (also flip, heli, and in gymnastics salto) is an acrobatic exercise in which a person's body rotates 360 ° around a horizontal axis with the feet passing over the head . A somersault can be performed forwards, backwards, or sideways and can be executed in the air or on the ground . When performed on the ground it is typically called a roll . Somersault originates from an obsolete French word, sombresault, from Occitan sobresaut; and ultimately Latin--supra, "over", and saltus, "jump". </P> <P> There are many variations of front and back somersaults . Somersaults can be performed in multiples, or multiples of quarter body revolutions, in some cases with additional twist rotations or ending in body landings, producing variations such as: </P>

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