Synonyms of gyrates

gyrates

verb

present tense third-person singular of gyrate

as in rotates

to move in circles around an axis or center

the gyroscope got its name for the way the disk inside the instrument gyrates around an axis

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rotates
• revolves
• spins
• twirls
• turns
• whirls
• rolls
• curls
• wheels
• circles
• pirouettes
• curves
• swirls
• spirals
• coils
• twists
• pinwheels
• pivots
• rings
• winds
• encircles
• circulates
• orbits
• rounds
• twines
• swivels

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of gyrates

In his weirdest picture—the late, baroque, campy Allegory of Faith—a bug-eyed female figure is shown clutching her chest, one foot balanced perilously on a globe, while a snake gushing blood from its jaws gyrates in the foreground. — Clare Bucknell, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026