gyrate

Verbs

  • (v) to wind or move in a spiral course
    • the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action
    • black smoke coiling up into the sky
    • the young people gyrated on the dance floor
    coil, spiral,
  • (v) revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
    • The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy
    spin, spin around, reel, whirl,

Synonyms

coil spiral spin spin around reel whirl

Words of close approximity

gyral