twisting

(s) marked by repeated turns and bends
- a tortuous road up the mountain
- winding roads are full of surprises
- had to steer the car down a twisty track
twisty, winding, tortuous, voluminous,

(n) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean overrefinement, straining, torture, distortion,
(n) the act of rotating rapidly
- he gave the crank a spin
- it broke off after much twisting
spin, twirl, twist, whirl,

twisty winding tortuous voluminous overrefinement straining torture distortion spin twirl twist whirl