pirouette

“A four-legged creature is hard to make look right because he has to stand up and do things,” he told The Times — athletic things, like performing a pirouette.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

In Hover mode, the joystick provides fine-grained yaw control, allowing the BlackFly to execute its surreal pirouette.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

A flick, followed by a pirouette and pass into Adams was another highlight.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2025

During so-called learning walks, the animals then explore the immediate surroundings around the nest entrance and repeatedly pirouette around their own body axis with short stops in between.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2024

Every turn, sweep, and pirouette channels the elements—a dip births a bolt of lightning arcing down from the sky.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

"I had the time of my life there. It's not a stage-stage school, but of course there's kids doing pirouettes and going 'Aaaaaahhhhh!' in the hallways," Adele told BBC 4 radio in 2022.

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026

Watching Zsa-zsa do his verbal pirouettes, I thought fondly of a former boyfriend, an indie film producer, who helped me buy a new car and talked the price down $3,000.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2025

For the next 30 minutes, the band are on fire, playing with purpose and swagger while Abigail pirouettes around the stage, dressed like Wednesday Addams playing a character from Bridgerton.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2023

Shortly after launching on 1 July, the European space observatory Euclid started performing tiny, unexpected pirouettes.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 10, 2023

And, while the corps de ballet pirouettes and leaps across the stage, Tim breaks his magician’s code and tells me exactly how the trick is done.

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

“What is dancing?” he asked jurors as he pranced and pirouetted across the room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025

Dressed in MJ's Billie Jean outfit, she pirouetted and moonwalked and jumped on the tables as if she'd been possessed by the man himself.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2025

On a recent afternoon, 18 members of Birmingham Royal Ballet spun, pirouetted and leaped across a rehearsal room, with all the grace and skill associated with classical dance.

From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2023

“See how she pirouetted away from that question about honoring precedent — beautiful hideballet there.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2022

Mine explored the earth below both houses, pirouetted around their plumbing, anchored their foundations.

From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate

Playing the Dead’s “Blues for Allah” on this tour — an LP rooted in Middle Eastern scales, pirouetting time signatures and improvisational telepathy — put him in communion with his old friend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

His bustling run in the final embers, spinning around and charging through Castres defenders before pirouetting over the line, could well become a trademark for club and country.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2024

He amassed nearly 400 videos showing great apes and other primates engaged in spinning behaviors, including somersaulting, rolling down hills, backflipping and pirouetting.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2023

Elsewhere in the country, ballets are also pirouetting up from the page.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2023

Although Charles walked at a brisk pace, Annie went ahead, pirouetting in front of him.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman