- present participle of spin.
spinning
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That same tight configuration would naturally produce a rapidly spinning, tidally locked star before the black hole captured it.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
Four of their five victories since 2023 have come at home, where spinning pitches have often been prioritised in pursuit of wins.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Einstein's theory of general relativity predicted that a spinning black hole would drag spacetime along with it, twisting it in a way that changes the orbits of the surrounding stars.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Thatcher’s warbly voice hangs in the air; tales of the Leatherman and lost daughters spinning around your brain as you try to fall asleep.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
I can see the waltzer ride spinning round and round.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
The central text of Europe’s central religion, followed closely by the tales and fairy spinnings of a Greek storyteller.
From Scientific American ● May 8, 2012
Despite these wild spinnings, spiral-swimming creatures manage to navigate very well.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2011
Many of them try too hard to impress with excessive swan flutterings as the swan-queen Odette on the one hand and multitudinous spinnings as the enchantress Odile on the other.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2010
Approximately half the footage of Ice Follies is devoted to the spinnings and whirlings of a troupe of professional skaters, photographed from all angles.
From Time Magazine Archive
I hold, with Poe, that there are no long poems—only bursts of poetry in long spinnings of metrical prose.
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Ambrose Bierce
