circumambulate
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They pack into the Grand Mosque in Mecca to circumambulate the Kaaba.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
And Muslim pilgrims circumambulate the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, without social distancing for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 2021
Rangarajan is addressing the morning’s temple goers who, like a school of fish, circumambulate the temple’s inner sanctum chanting the Hindu deity Balaji’s name in vague unison.
From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2017
At any time of the day, hundreds of people circumambulate the stupa, chanting mantras, kneading their mala beads and twirling prayer wheels.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2012
God willing, thou shalt circumambulate the True One in every world of His worlds and shalt be free from all else save Him....
From A Compilaton on Women by Universal House of Justice
He’s deep into Shambhala Buddhism and has circumambulated Mount Kailash in Tibet.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2017
I may well have promenaded, pedestrianized, peregrinated, ambulated, perambulated, circumambulated, hoofed, and locomoted ...
From Time Magazine Archive
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Three separate times, after that, I visited the Great Mosque and circumambulated the Ka’ba.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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It was being circumambulated by thousands upon thousands of praying pilgrims, both sexes, and every size, shape, color, and race in the world.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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Hip to hip, arms interwoven to hold hands, Desdemona and Lefty circumambulated the captain, once, twice, and then again, spinning the cocoon of their life together.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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The Brooklyn-based photographer Bryan Thomas has spent much of the past two years in his native Florida, circumambulating the coast and taking pictures of the sea and the sky and the people.
From The New Yorker ● May 19, 2017
We’ve already done a lot of circumambulating, negotiating temples and sacred objects in a clockwise direction.
From Washington Post
Yegey was for circumambulating, but Obsle went to the point.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Even the Badawi circumambulating the Ka’abah fortifies his wild belief by the fond thought that he treads the path of “Allah’s friend.”
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
There is one chance in ten thousand that the circumambulating side track is empty; one and one only, and no way to make sure of it.
From The Grafters by Lynde, Francis