circling

• POS: Verb (usu participle)

THESAURUS

circling

alternate, ambient, beating, cincture, circuition, circuitousness, circuitry, circularity, circulation, circumambience, circumambiency, circumambient, circumambulation, circumcincture, circumferential, circumflex, circumflexion, circumfluent, circumfluous, circumjacence, circumjacent, circumlocution, circummigration, circumnavigation, circumposition, containment, cyclic, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, digression, embracement, embracing, encincture, encirclement, encircling, enclosing, enclosure, encompassing, encompassment, enfolding, enfoldment, enveloping, envelopment, environing, environment, epochal, even, every other, excursion, excursus, girding, girdling, gyre, gyring, inclusion, indirection, intermittent, involvement, isochronal, meandering, measured, metronomic, neighboring, orbit, orbiting, oscillatory, periodical, peripheral, pulsing, reciprocal, recurrent, recurring, rhythmic, rotary, roundabout, roundaboutness, rounding, seasonal, serial, spiral, spiraling, steady, suburban, surrounding, turn, turning, undulant, undulatory, wavelike, wheeling, wrapping

ROGET THESAURUS

circling

Convolution

N convolution, winding, convolution, involution, circumvolution, wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity, sinuosity, sinuation, meandering, circuit, circumbendibus, twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages, torsion, inosculation, reticulation, rivulation, roughness, coil, roll, curl, buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle, tendril, scollop, scallop, escalop, kink, ammonite, snakestone, serpent, eel, maze, labyrinth, knot, convoluted, winding, twisted, tortile, tortive, wavy, undated, undulatory, circling, snaky, snake-like, serpentine, serpent, anguill, vermiform, vermicular, mazy, tortuous, sinuous, flexuous, anfractuous, reclivate, rivulose, scolecoid, sigmoid, sigmoidal, spiriferous, spiroid, involved, intricate, complicated, perplexed, labyrinth, labyrinthic, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, peristaltic, daedalian, kinky, knotted, wreathy, frizzly, crepe, buckled, raveled, spiral, coiled, helical, cochleate, cochleous, screw-shaped, turbinated, turbiniform, in and out, round and round, a can of worms, Gordian knot.