Word Study
rolling
CIDE DICTIONARY
rolling, a.
- Rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot; as, a rolling wheel or ball. [1913 Webster]
- Moving on wheels or rollers, or as if on wheels or rollers; as, a rolling chair. [1913 Webster]
- Having gradual, rounded undulations of surface; as, a rolling country; rolling land. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
rolling
acrobatics, advance, advancement, advancing, aerobatics, alpen, alpestrine, alpigene, alpine, angular momentum, angular motion, angular velocity, axial motion, banking, billowing, billowy, black spot, bloom, blooping, booming, bowling, cannonading, careening, career, centrifugation, chandelle, circulation, circumgyration, circumrotation, course, crabbing, dangling, definition, dive, diving, fishtailing, flare, forward motion, forwardal, forwarding, fringe area, full, full circle, fulminating, furtherance, furthering, ghost, glide, go-ahead, granulation, grid, gyrating, gyration, hard shadow, headway, hilly, image, knobby, lurching, march, mellow, monticuline, mountained, mountainous, multiple image, noise, nose dive, ongoing, onward course, passage, pealing, picture, picture noise, picture shifts, pitching, pivoting, plangent, power dive, progress, progression, progressiveness, promotion, pull-up, pullout, pulsing, pushdown, rain, reeling, resonant, resonating, revolution, revolving, rich, roaring, rocking, roll, rolling on, rotating, rotation, rotational motion, rumbling, scanning pattern, scintillation, shading, sideslip, snow, snowstorm, sonorous, spin, spinning, spiral, stall, stunting, subalpine, surgy, swaying, swinging, swirling, swiveling, tactical maneuvers, throbbing, thundering, thunderlike, thunderous, thundery, tonitruant, tonitruous, tossing, travel, trolling, trundling, turbination, turning, twirling, undulant, undulate, undulated, undulating, undulative, undulatory, vibrant, vibrating, volleying, volplane, volutation, volution, wavy, way, wheeling, whir, whirling, zoomROGET THESAURUS
rolling
Roll
N roll, drumming, berloque, bombination, rumbling, tattoo, drumroll, dingdong, tantara, rataplan, whirr, ratatat, ratatat-tat, rubadub, pitapat, quaver, clutter, charivari, racket, cuckoo, repetition, peal of bells, devil's tattoo, reverberation, clickety-clack, hum, purr, hummingbird, cat, kitten (animal sounds), rolling, monotonous, like a bee in a bottle.For further exploring for "rolling" in Webster Dictionary Online