1. (

• gyrate ,
• 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" ;

2. (

• spiral

) form a spiral; "The path spirals up the mountain" ;

3. (

• corkscrew ,
• spiral ,

) move in a spiral or zigzag course ;

1. (

• coiling ,
• helical ,
• spiral ,
• spiraling ,
• volute ,
• voluted ,
• whorled ,
• turbinate

) in the shape of a coil ;