/ dʒaɪˈreɪt; NAmE ˈdʒaɪreɪt/ verb
to move around in circles; to make sth, especially a part of your body, move around :
[ v ]
They began gyrating to the music.
The leaves gyrated slowly to the ground.
[ vn ]
As the lead singer gyrated his hips, the crowd screamed wildly.
► gyr·ation / dʒaɪˈreɪʃn; NAmE / noun [ C , usually pl. , U ]
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WORD ORIGIN
early 19th cent.: earlier (early 17th-cent.) as gyration , from Latin gyrat- revolved, from the verb gyrare , from Greek guros a ring.