Body roll is the leaning of a vehicle’s body during cornering.
While some body roll can be expected, automakers attempt to minimize it through careful suspension and chassis design. Structural measures such as stabilizer bars now are supplemented in some vehicles by high-tech adaptive-suspension and active-suspension systems, which monitor the vehicle’s attitude at numerous points and adjust the suspension instantaneously to keep the vehicle level — even in hard cornering.
Information for this was taken from the Cars.com’s glossary, written by Joe Wiesenfelder.
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