gyrate
gy|rate /dʒaɪr'eɪt, AM dʒ'aɪreɪt/ (gyrates gyrating gyrated)
1 [VERB] V, V-ing
If you gyrate, you dance or move your body quickly with circular movements.
The woman began to gyrate to the music.
...a room stuffed full of gasping, gyrating bodies.
● gyration [N-COUNT] usu pl
Prince continued his enthusiastic gyrations on stage.
2 [VERB] V prep, also V
To gyrate means to turn round and round in a circle, usually very fast.
The aeroplane was gyrating about the sky in a most unpleasant fashion.
3 [VERB] V adv/prep, also V
If things such as prices or currencies gyrate, they move up and down in a rapid and uncontrolled way. (JOURNALISM)
Interest rates began to gyrate up towards 20 per cent in 1980 and then down and up again.
● gyration [N-COUNT] usu pl, with supp
...the gyrations of the currency markets.
1 [VERB] V, V-ing
If you gyrate, you dance or move your body quickly with circular movements.
The woman began to gyrate to the music.
...a room stuffed full of gasping, gyrating bodies.
● gyration [N-COUNT] usu pl
Prince continued his enthusiastic gyrations on stage.
2 [VERB] V prep, also V
To gyrate means to turn round and round in a circle, usually very fast.
The aeroplane was gyrating about the sky in a most unpleasant fashion.
3 [VERB] V adv/prep, also V
If things such as prices or currencies gyrate, they move up and down in a rapid and uncontrolled way. (JOURNALISM)
Interest rates began to gyrate up towards 20 per cent in 1980 and then down and up again.
● gyration [N-COUNT] usu pl, with supp
...the gyrations of the currency markets.