1. move or cause to move rapidly in a circle or spiral: "the dog yelped frenetically, wildly gyrating her tail"
▪ dance in a wild or suggestive manner:"strippers gyrated to rock music on a low stage"
Word Originearly 19th century: earlier (early 17th century) as gyration, from Latin gyrat- ‘revolved’, from the verb gyrare, from Greek guros ‘a ring’.