"spiraling" in the verb sense
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
"spiraling" in the adjective sense
1. coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate
in the shape of a coil
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