Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - gyrate

(gyrates, gyrating, gyrated) 1. If you gyrate, you dance or move your body quickly with circular movements. The woman began to gyrate to the music. ...a room stuffed full of gasping, gyrating bodies. VERB: V, V-ing • gyration (gyrations) Prince continued his enthusiastic gyrations on stage. N-COUNT: usu pl 2. To gyrate means to turn round and round in a circle, usually very fast. The aeroplane was gyrating about the sky in a most unpleasant fashion. VERB: V prep, also V 3. If things such as prices or currencies gyrate, they move up and down in a rapid and uncontrolled way. (JOURNALISM) Interest rates began to gyrate up towards 20 per cent in 1980 and then down and up again. VERB: V adv/prep, also V • gyration ...the gyrations of the currency markets. N-COUNT: usu pl, with supp