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  • verb Present participle of gyrate.

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Examples

  • In the fitness studio behind his home, Tony Horton grabbed a chin-up bar and lifted himself, attempting to execute a routine called the gyrating lever.

    Playing Mix-and-Match With Muscle Moves Kevin Helliker 2012

  • Customers are briefed on these genre-benders, along with the gyrations of the international society set - like the stock market these days, they are always "gyrating" - in a weekly online magazine I'm sure would be a must-read if I had an iPad and a Jimmy Choo leopard-printed case $795 to carry it in.

    NYT > Home Page By ALEXANDRA JACOBS 2011

  • (One afternoon melee at a friend's wedding, as the groom's rugby buddies drank the bar dry and tore up the dance floor in a loud, lewd, men-only kind of gyrating scrum, is about the closest I've come to the sport.)

    Story pick: The only openly gay male athlete 2010

  • She said "scantily-clothed" women in the clips were "gyrating" around men, and giving

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • She said "scantily-clothed" women in the clips were "gyrating" around men, and giving

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • She said "scantily-clothed" women in the clips were "gyrating" around men, and giving

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Similarly, Len smacked Nicole and Derek around for the fact that their samba contained too much "gyrating" and didn't include the specific technical moves that he likes to see in a samba.

    Newsvine - Get Smarter Here Linda Holmes 2010

  • She said "scantily-clothed" women in the clips were "gyrating" around men, and giving

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • She said "scantily-clothed" women in the clips were "gyrating" around men, and giving

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Len said while Warren is always fun to watch there was too much "gyrating" for his liking.

    Starpulse Entertainment News 2008

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  • “A baking afternoon in a dusty village, and ten young Maoists are gyrating and marching under red-bannered slogans.”

    —Charles Haviland, The World Tonight, BBC Radio 4 (7th April 2008)

    April 8, 2008