Pivoting is a vertical movement of the tongue around a relatively stable central point, which occurs at the overlap of articulatory gestures due to articulatory limitations and coarticulatory resistance. The pivot could be one of the fundamental global patterns of the tongue during speech that also affects speech perception. The aim of the work was to investigate pivoting in the speech of prelingually deaf Croatian speakers with an implanted artificial cochlea. It was assumed that the number and the characteristics of pivots would depend on the clinical status of participants and that the number of pivots and the position of the pivot point would depend on the phonetic context. The materials were collected during the KROKO project. Pivoting was analyzed on ultrasound recordings of quasi-spontaneous speech in the vowels [i], [a], and [u] surrounded by the fricative [ʃ]. Data was collected on the number, duration, and strength of pivots, the precision, and the position of the pivot point. 64 pivots were found. The number of pivots was shown to depend on the phonetic context while the strength of the pivot depends on the clinical status of participants, possibly pointing to different organization of gestures in atypical subjects.