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spinning

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ˈspɪnɪŋ//

The motion of something that spins.

noun

  1. 1

    The motion of something that spins.

    these uncontrollable spinnings of the head

  2. 2

    The process of converting fibres into yarn or thread.

  3. 3

    Indoor cycling on an exercise bicycle.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of spinpresent participle and gerund of spin

    An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.

Forms

plural
spinnings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).