Textual thesaurus for "gyrate"

(verb) reel, whirl, spin, spin around

revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis

The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy

(verb) spiral, coil

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