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

Since his return Wharton has produced a number of eye-catching performances and it is common to see edits of his best moments - such as a pirouette against Fulham - on social media.

From BBC ● Apr. 5, 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

In the open, dusty area between wrecked car mountains, Rutilio executed an off-kilter pirouette in time to his own breathy beatboxing.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

"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

Collins noticed her ballet pirouettes suffered during her luteal phase; Gomez saw women pushing through heated Pilates classes until they nearly passed out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2026

As Abigail pirouettes down the hallway after a victim, there it is, finally: A ballet dancer having fun onscreen.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2024

It was his dance teacher who filmed the young boy in June 2020 as he practised pirouettes barefoot in the rain.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2023

I expected us to immediately move on to greater things, like arabesques, grands jetés, and pirouettes, but we couldn’t.

From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025

Trailing by a TD, Penix pirouetted out of a sure sack, scampered to the left sideline and heaved a missile that Culp somehow came down with over three Trojan defenders.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2023

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

She pirouetted on the tip of a birch leaf.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

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

As the song peaked, they were joined on stage by a blond mullet-haired ice skater, pirouetting in a somewhat limited space.

From BBC ● May 11, 2023

Pulling myself up a little taller, I began pirouetting to a waltz from Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2023

It’s assumed that the audience, without nudging, sees the ridiculousness of showing a genocidal monster pirouetting on skates.

From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2023

The physics that works for falling bodies and pirouetting ice skaters down here in the microcosm of the Earth makes galaxies up there in the macrocosm of the universe.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan