porpoising

• Closer inspection revealed that the rest of the body was encased in 2-3 feet of ice, the body prostrate, suspended into the ice like a porpoising walrus. —  detnews.com - Commuting
• An airport video camera shows the aircraft landing hard and porpoising before the left wing drags and a fire ensues.
• "It's a go," said dad, and they started porpoising across the little lake, and then —  Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904
• You're likely to see reds porpoising or jumping in the same place to help you locate the drop-off.
• When they stay up it is easy enough, but when they are porpoising, shooting it up for just a look around, you have to be looking right at one. —  The U-boat hunters

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