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spin

noun as in circular motion

verb as in go around, make go around

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We spun a few laps around the circuit as I tried to commit to memory his advice about optimal trajectories and braking distances.

His mum Charlotte Baggot described how everyone "started running" while Olly "shouted 'run' to his brother and then spun his little sister around and pushed her towards me".

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In what amounted to an instantaneous confidence boost, Lateef took off running on his team’s first play from scrimmage and spun his way for 14 yards.

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The highway patrol then attempted a "PIT manoeuvre", a controversial technique law enforcement use to force a fleeing vehicle to suddenly spin sideways and stop.

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It looked like Blair Kinghorn and George Turner had arrived in time to knock McKenzie into touch but he somehow managed to spin out of the tackle and twist his way over.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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