tumble

A fall, especially end over end.

I took a tumble down the stairs and broke my tooth.

A disorderly heap.

When at last we stopped in a tumble of bodies on the grass, laughing, and in Dad's case, out of breath, we were like little kids (I mean 5 or 6! After all I am 12!) at the end of a playground session.

An act of sexual intercourse.

Wouldn't it be jolly now, / To take our Aertex panters off / And have a jolly tumble in / The jolly, jolly sun?

When you've just had a tumble between the sheets and are feeling rumpled and lazy, she may want to get up so she can make the bed.

To fall end over end; to roll over and over.

He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill.

“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]”

To throw headlong.

His hand went after his revolver almost that instant mine did. I was a second too quick for him, for my shot tumbled him from his mule just as his ball whistled harmlessly past by my head.

[Spillikins] was played with ivory or bone pieces about five inches long with assorted ends. These were tumbled out of a box into a pile on the table and each player, using a specially designed tool, would try in turn to remove a spillikin without upsetting the others in the pile.

To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.

To drop rapidly.

Share prices tumbled after the revelation about the company's impending failure.

To smooth and polish (e.g. gemstones or pebbles) by means of a rotating tumbler.

A village in Llannon community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN5411).