How to pronounce “headspring”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A fountainhead; a source.
• (figurative) A basis or foundation.
• (gymnastics) A move in which the gymnast places both hands on the mat with the top of the head about 6 inches in front, pushes off with the hands while flipping the legs overhead, and lands on the feet.
• A spring that sits at the top of a mechanism, pushing the internal parts inward.
• [Verb]
• (gymnastics) To perform a headspring.

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Similar Sounds

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