wind around

This may amuse you as they wind around your legs.

The brick paths wind around the buildings and lead to the massive volcano that towers over everything at the far end.

The scaffolding was erected against a building, but was swept out by the wind around 2 p.m., forcing emergency responders to divert traffic and pedestrians away from area.

The magnetic fields initially applied by the tokamak wind around the torus-shaped plasma, both the long way -- around the outer edge, and the short way -- from the outer edge and through the center hole.

The secret lies in special polymers -- substances whose molecules are hooked together in long chains -- that wind around the nanotube in an orderly spiral, "like wrapping a ribbon around a pencil," said first author Francesco Mastrocinque, who earned his chemistry Ph.D. in Therien's lab at Duke.