(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