To roll; to roll about by turning one way and the other; as, a person in pain tumbles and tosses.

To fall; to come down suddenly and violently; as, to tumble from a scaffold.

To roll down. The stone of Sisyphus is said to have tumbled to the bottom, as soon as it was carried up the hill.

To play mountebank tricks.

To turn over; to turn or throw about for examination or searching; sometimes with over; as, to tumble over books or papers; to tumble over clothes.

To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed. To tumble out, to throw or roll out; as, to tumble out casks from a store. To tumble down, to throw down carelessly.

A fall.