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Synonyms for gyrate

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Synonyms for gyrate

to move or cause to move in circles or around an axis

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Synonyms for gyrate

to wind or move in a spiral course

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revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis

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"We are not against entertainment, but it's the way she performs -- her gyrating moves on stage and her sexy outfits.
Then she started gyrating on the spot and trying to do Take That dance moves, waving her hands in the air.
"These skaters just keep gyrating on our building." The trouble started when skaters took a liking to the brick embankment on the building's East Side.
Just because conservatives are quite wrong (in my opinion) to argue that young women are victimized by sexual freedom doesn't mean that only right-wing killjoys can have misgivings about prepubescent girls parading in T-shirts with vulgar messages and gyrating to music with sexually explicit lyrics.
Lines form at the sides of the stage as adoring gay and straight men and women wait their chance to stuff bills in the gold-spangled bikini of a shapely transgender dancer gyrating and lipsyncing joyously to salsa music.
Of course, there's the usual inspired Cirque du Soleil gyrating, juggling, and midair contorting.
Soldiers handed out sweets to the crowd as they travelled the route, preceded by a float of muscle men in pink Lycra shorts, blowing whistles while gyrating to house music
Near the moon, the craft detected oscillations at the exact frequency expected from ionized water molecules gyrating along magnetic field lines.
Brave shoppers joined dance teacher Kay Taylor gyrating around Eldon Square shopping centre to the strains of Egyptian dance music.
In a crescendo of music and a digitally created fiesta of stars, gyrating all around with water bubbles, the divers reach an open area, set with fifty easels in a circle.
market, and Rubio continues to lead the way in this 21st century gold rush, gyrating across video screens and cutting inches off her mini-skirts in an effort to get her musical message across.
There's even a hot bedroom scene that convinces you that there are legs and groins under the wildly gyrating bedclothes.
These factors include revelations about corporate fraud, gyrating stock market values, and the fear of a double-dip recession.
The crowd was soon gyrating and clapping like a company of time-served belly dancers.
From Elvis' gyrating hips and the phallic symbolism in rock stars' stage gestures and props, we've regressed to popular bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jesus Lizard, who sometimes play in the nude and perform unmentionable bodily functions onstage.